Career
She is of uncertain origins. Made a widow early, she was remarried to the old and very wealthy Gaspare di Nicolao Mansi. The wealthy Mansi family was well-known earlier than the 16th century in much of Europe thanks to their trade in silk.
Lucida was very vain, and is rumored to have dedicated an entire room in the Villa Mansi to mirrors in order to admire her own appearance.
Lucida died of the plague February 12, 1649, and was laid to rest in the chiesa dei Cappuccini a Lucca, in her family"s crypt. Lucida Mansi, the daughter of Lucchese nobles, was said to be very beautiful and very vain.
The legend states that she killed her lovers after sleeping with them by throwing them down a ditch covered in sharp blades.
