Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pescaglia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lucca in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 70 km northwest of Florence and about 15 km northwest of Lucca.Recorded control of the town and territory was achieved by Lucca in 1272 to protect their boundaries from the . Instruction to flatten the original castle was recorded in the Statute of 1308 in order to destroy any remaining feudalists. It is questionable if this order was carried out but is recorded that in 1584 the architect Vincenzo Civitali was given instructions to rebuild the castle. Pescaglia remained within control of Lucca from that period to today growing in size and importance.