The town of Mulazzo is renowned because it hosted the illustrious poet Dante Alighieri. It is in the province of Massa Carrara at 350 m. of altitude and it has a population of about 2,500 inhabitants. The sanctuary of the Madonna del Monte and the church of San Martino stand out among its treasures.

The town benefits from a particular strategic position. In effect, the mountains around which it lies also protect it. Since the difficult period of the Early Middle Ages, the area had immediately caught the Byzantines' interest who were engaged in protecting the territory of Lunigiana from the Barbarian incursions. They probably built the first nucleus of the modern chief town with the forlorn hope to escape from the Lombards invasion. In effect, they dominated the whole Northern area of Tuscany since the VI century A.D.
Yet, the Lombards ceded the territories corresponding to the modern town to Obizzo Malaspina for political reasons, probably. The Malaspina family that benefited from Dante Alighieri's influential friendship, dominated the town of Mulazzo for a long time.
In the XIV century, Franceschino Malaspina called the poet who conceived the Divine Comedy and many other scholars to bring prestige to the town. Dante presumably stayed here in 1306 and he acted as an ambassador in the process of peace between the Malaspina and the groups of nobles and the Bishopric of Luni.
The Malaspina's dominion ended with the Napoleonic occupation of Tuscany after which the French emperor carried out numerous reforms. Among them, there was the abolition of feudalism, and the control of Mulazzo was withdrawn to this powerful family. With the fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna in 1814, the political situation of Northern Tuscany became extremely unstable. The towns in the territory of Carrara divided between the pro-Lorraine, who supported the annexation of the town to the Tuscan Grand Duchy, and those who supported the House of Savoy and participated to the Risorgimento uprisings that culminated with the annexation of the whole area to the Kingdom of Italy in 189.