Pistoia

Pistoia was a Tuscan city that had been a free commune. After Ormanno Tedici made himself its lord, his nephew Filippo sold it to Castruccio Castracani of Lucca; Florentine rule had returned by 1337.

Under Florentine control Pistoia suffered social and economic decline in the fourteenth century. Florence formally annexed the city in 1530, making its rule permanent. In the second half of the eighteenth century Pistoia shared in Tuscany's social, cultural and economic revival.