The Scientific Dating of the Ramayana and the Vedas by Dr. P. V. Vartak

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The illustrious history of this city dates back as far as Etruria itself, although the actual city was founded by the Romans. Julius Caesar’s First Triumvirate met in Lucca, demonstrating its importance to Rome; it later became the Lombard capital of Tuscany through the ninth century. 63 In the course of the fifteenth 59 Alfredo Altieri, San Pancrazio e Lucignano: storia di due paesi: Indagine sui cognomi della comunità, 1541–1841 (Florence: G. Pagnini, 1998), p. 28, and Mario Battistini, Le epidemie in Volterra dal 1004 al 1800 (Volterra: A.

60 Giovanni Batistini, Volterra nel seicento, pp. 61–83 and Mario Battistini, Le epidemie in Volterra dal 1004 al 1800, pp. 32–34. In the surrounding communes, Pomarance and possibly Bibbona remained unaffected, Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, San Gimignano, and Pistoia were hit very hard, and Piombino, Savereto, Montecatini Val di Cecina, Sasso, Silano and La Leccia suffered minor casualties. Mario Battistini, Le epidemie in Volterra dal 1004 al 1800, pp. 38–44. 61 Enrico Fiumi, ed. by Giuliano Pinto, Volterra e San Gimignano nel medioevo (San Gimignano: Cooperativa Nuovi Quaderni, 1983), p.

71 Tommasi, Sommario della storia di Lucca, lib. III cap. IX, p. 456 and lib. III cap. X; and Mancini, Storia di Lucca, p. 255. 72 Mancini, Storia di Lucca, pp. 219–225. 73 Tommasi, Sommario della storia di Lucca, lib. III cap. X, and lib. IV cap. I and cap. III. 74 Tommasi, Sommario della storia di Lucca, lib. IV cap. IV. 75 Mancini, Storia di Lucca, p. 264. 76 Mancini, Storia di Lucca, pp. 258–259. 77 While agricultural products (notably olive oil and chestnuts) continued to sell, significant shifts in the production and sale of draperies and silks had devastating effects on the Lucchese economy.