Napoleon's brother, he become Prince of Canino at the beginning of the 1800s, residing in the Castle of Musignano and making several improvements to the architecture of the local town, including its theatre.

Under Luciano the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci was the subject of several excavations, with many a work of art being catalogued and removed to form his personal collection. He also donated several works of art to the main church in Canino.

Life
Lucien (Luciano) Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio in 1775. His first wife, Cristine Boyer, gave him two daughters. She later died in 1800, the year that Luciano was appointed the French Ambassador in Spain by his brother, Napoleon. On his return to Paris he met Alexandrine de Blescamp, his second wife.

In 1804 he left for Rome, not sharing in his brother's ambitions, and bought the lands around Canino from the Church in 1808. The following year he decided to leave for the USA, but only got as far as Sardinia where he was caught by the British and taken to England.

He was freed and returned to Rome after Napoleon's defeat in 1814, where he was appointed "Prince of Canino" by Pope Pius VII and later "Prince of Musignano" in 1824 by Pope Leo XII.

He died in Viterbo in 1840 at the age of 65. His wife Alexandrine erected a monument to his memory in the family's chapel in the main church in Canino, alongside his father Carlo Bonaparte, his first wife and his son Giuseppe Luciano Bonaparte (died in infancy).