The Signoria di Carrara was an Italian feudal state centered in Carrara

Carrara

Carrara is a city and comune in the province of Massa-Carrara , notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some west-northwest of Florence....

, in what is now northern Tuscany

Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....

. It also included the towns of Avenza and Marina di Carrara and the basin of the Carrione river.

The origins of the seigniory can be traced back to the decision of emperor Henry VII

Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry VII was the King of Germany from 1308 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1312. He was the first emperor of the House of Luxembourg...

 to suppress the bishopric of Luni, once the main fief in the area, assigning the territory of the former free commune of Carrara to his ally, the Republic of Pisa

Republic of Pisa

The Republic of Pisa was a de facto independent state centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa during the late tenth and eleventh centuries. It rose to become an economic powerhouse, a commercial center whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and Italian trade for a century before being surpassed and...

. The Carrarese lordship subsequently it was acquired in succession by different families and cities, such as Lucca

Lucca

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...

 and the Visconti of Milan, until it was assgned to the Malaspina family in 1473.