Grand Duchy of Tuscany

In Brazilian's Varna series, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was a short-lived Italian state that was only present in Episode XIV, between the First and Second Italian Wars. The nation was ruled by an authoritarian government centred in Lucca.
The year was 1527. Romagna and Urbino were confessing, explaining how they carried out a Neapolitan scheme to kill Venice. Florence, Siena and Lucca were their audience, the latter of whom went to Napoli, to the Italic Union, to divulge details of the meeting. Thus began the First Italian War. 
With aid from Italia and Sardinia, Lucchese forces captured the city of Florence in February 1529. Lucca annexed the entire Republic of Florence, as well as the city of Siena, to form the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
The state was expanded during the Second Italian War, with the collapse of Genoa on August 10th, 1530. As Genoa was reorganised by Italia and Sardinia, Tuscany took the liberty of annexing Massa and Carrara, despite having not moved a single Tuscan troop. However, going into 1531, the Tuscans sent aid to the Italic offensive on Turin, and occupied their new territory.
February 1533 brought a surprising change. When the Second Brescian Uprising broke out, it was revealed that the leader was one of two survivors of the Italic Sack of Roma, and that the other was Pope Clement VII, residing within Tuscan borders, in Florence. At this time the Papal State was ruled by a new pope, Gennarus I.
From March into May, Lombard troops advanced along the coast and came dangerously close to Lucca. They received aid from an uprising in Prato, located on the other side of Lucca, next to Florence. The Pratese and Lombards met in Lucca and captured the city. With that, Massa and Carrara were annexed into Lombardy, and the rest of Tuscany was split between Prato and the Duchies of Florence and Siena, both Italic vassal states.
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