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    Francesco Guicciardini (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ɡwittʃarˈdiːni]; 6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic...
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    ˈmɔːro]; "the Moor"), and called the "arbiter of Italy" by historian Francesco Guicciardini, was an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494...
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    Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini led to its subsequent elaboration as the language of culture throughout...
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    Francesco Guicciardini (5 October 1851 – 1 September 1915) was an Italian politician. He was born in Florence. He served as minister of agriculture, commerce...
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    significant number of contemporary accounts, including those of Francesco Guicciardini, Niccolò Machiavelli and Blaise de Montluc. After 1503, most of...
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    armed conflicts as a cardinal. Commenting on this, his contemporary Francesco Guicciardini wrote that Cardinal Giulio was better suited to arms than to the...
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    Francesco Guicciardini (1851–1915) married Princess Luisa Strozzi-Majorca-Renzi (1859–1933), this line of the family changed its name to Guicciardini-Strozzi...
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    Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini. It later became the official language of all the Italian states...
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    Cornelis Drebbel Desiderius Erasmus Marsilio Ficino Pietro Pomponazzi Francesco Guicciardini Michel de Montaigne Thomas More Antonio Serra Francisco Suárez Bernardino...
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    the Italian character of its language. Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini were the chief originators of the science of history. Pietro Bembo...
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    Francesco Vettori and Francesco Guicciardini, two men who had managed to stay in public service under the Medici, unlike Machiavelli. To Guicciardini...
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    Fiorentine'', p. 432 Guicciardini, Francesco (1818). Delle istorie d'Italia di Francesco Guicciardini. p. 42. Opere inedite di Francesco Guicciardini etc, Storia...
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    the preparations for a crusade and wrecked the papal finances. Francesco Guicciardini reckoned the cost of the war to Leo at the sum of 800,000 ducats...
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  • language and customs) was important to success of a composite state. Francesco Guicciardini praised the acquisition of the Kingdom of Navarre by the King of...
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    granducale. Guicciardini, Francesco (2019). Celli, Carlo (ed.). The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual: selected writings of Francesco Guicciardini. Early...
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    Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared...
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    nephew of historian and diplomat Francesco Guicciardini. His best-known work, the Descrittione di Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi...
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    neighbours. Several factors have been considered causes of this; Francesco Guicciardini blamed particularism,[citation needed] for example, while Niccolò...
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    February 5, 1903 New Italian Cabinet; Baron Sonnino Premier and Count Guicciardini Foreign Minister, The New York Times, February 9, 1906 Italian Cabinet...
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    Florentine republicans at the turn of the 16th Century CE like Francesco Guicciardini rediscovered the classical concept of the virtue of the active citizen...
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    of the period include Machiavelli himself, his friend and critic Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540) and Giovanni Botero (The Reason of State, 1589). The...
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    Italy portal Biography portal Florentine military reforms Francesco Guicciardini Francesco Vettori Italian Renaissance Mayberry Machiavelli Republicanism...
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    with immortalizing his name than providing for his descendants." Francesco Guicciardini. The History of Italy. Translated by Sidney Alexander. Princeton...
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    targets rather than being deployed solely on the first target chosen. Francesco Guicciardini, an Italian historian and statesman, wrote that the cannons were...
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    Guicciardini, Il Sacco di Roma (Paris, 1664). In this edition the author's name is given simply as 'Guicciardini'; hence the attribution to Francesco...
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    to primacy in the rich peninsula. As the Renaissance historian Francesco Guicciardini explained: "If one of them [Charles V] ruled more kingdoms and states...
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    exiles voiced their complaints to Charles, Florentine diplomat Francesco Guicciardini responded, “his Excellency’s virtue, his fame, the opinion of him...
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    1513–1521 Not married Posthumously accused of homosexuality (by Francesco Guicciardini and Paolo Giovio). Falconi suggests he may have offered preferment...
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    Bourbon; the forces combined at Piacenza and advanced on Rome. Francesco Guicciardini, now in command of the Papal armies, proved unable to resist them;...
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    such as Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio and, later, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini wrote in literary Tuscan/Florentine...
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