The town of Camporgiano is in the province of Lucca at 475 m. a.s.l. of altitude and it has a population of about 2,000 inhabitants. The Rocca degli Estensi and the Church of the Madonna, built in 1627, can be visited in its territory.

Populations descending from the Osci and the Ausones crossed the area of Camporgiano before the Etruscans settled here (even if their noteworthy evidences have not been found) and the Romans conquered it later. An alcove dedicated to the god Janus, set on the plain to the right of the Serchio rover, has remained. Sulla's veterans founded the colony of "Camporiano", so called after the name of the god, and they were assigned some land at the end of the civil war against the Mariani in 82 B.C. Spanning the year 0, the Roman "castrum" experienced a phase of such expansion that it was cited in some tables of Lucca dating to 111 a.D.
The area depopulated after the Barbarian invasions. An actual recovery took place around the year 1000, thanks to the economy linked to the activities based on the exploitation of the river. In the Early Middle Ages, probably around the VII century, the nucleus of Camporiano was moved to its current position, maybe because of an earthquake that destroyed the original built-up area. Around the XIII century, the town was very active in supporting the Guelfs against the Ghibellines of the Garfagnana. The latter, yet, are the majority and when their leader Castruccio Castracani got the power in Lucca, Camporgiano changed sides, too.
After Castruccio died, the town supported the Guelfs again and around the year 1360 its area was raged by the war caused by the Malaspina, another powerful family belonging to the Ghibelline party. Thus, the more violent period in the Garfagnana began and it was characterized by the depopulation of Lucca and by the diffusion of brigandage and the growth of overbearing local seigniories. The towns of the Garfagnana called the Estensi, a family who dominated the area corresponding to Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, to settle the disputes. The Estensi annexed four vicariates of Lucca, one of which depended upon Camporgiano. In the following years, many owners followed one another in ruling this area and it definitively went back under the seigniory of Ferrara in 1521.
During the long period under the Estensi's dukedom, also Ludovico Ariosto governed the vicariate. Therefore, he spent some years of his life in Camporgiano. In 1859, the family from the Emilia region decayed with the Risorgimento uprisings and the town, once the Kingdom of Italy annexed it, province of Massa Carrara incorporated the town. A second Royal Decree definitively ceded it to the province of Lucca in 1923.