 Many authors mentioned Luceria, with varying degrees of specificness, in their works, like Raffaele Maffei da Volterra in his "Commentari Urbani" from the early 1500s; friar Leandro Alberti in his "Descrittione di tutta l'Italia" of 1577 and Paul van Merle in his "Cosmographia" published in Amsterdam in 1605.Scholars like Johann Jacob Hofmann (1698) and Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1744) thought that Luceria was ancient Luzzara, which is usually considered to have been founded by the Lombards, although recently Roman and pre-Roman remains have been discovered in the apse of the Church of San Giorgio, which make the equation more plausible.Archaeological research was undertaken at Luceria in a very fragmentary way from the second half of the 18th century.