he founder of the Puccini dynasty, Giacomo seniorborn in Celle dei Puccini in 1712, having achieved the widest affirmation in the field of music in town he held the offices of Maestro della Cappella di Palazzo della Repubblica Lucchese from 1739 and was organist of the Cattedrale di San Martino from 1740), as well as being organist or choirmaster in the main churches of Lucca) in 1774 bought for himself and his heirs a tomb in the Church of San Romano.. Furthermore it was natural that an employee of the State of Lucca should wish to be buried in the church where he fulfilled part of his professional offices, as will also happen to his son Antonio.

The location of the burial place nevertheless strikes us, in the centre of the church, between the two organs. The inscription reads:

JACOBUS PUCCINI CIVIS LUCENSIS SIBI
SUISQUE QUIETIS LOCUM ELEGIT
A.N. MDCCLXXIV

The tomb received, in addition to Giacomo senior (1781) and his widow Angela Piccinini (1794), three of his grandchildren – the children of Antonio – Angela Margherita (1775), Margherita Maria Rosalba Diana (1792) and one registered as NN, who was not even baptized in time.