Francesco Guicciardini biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Francesco Guicciardini

Author Name:

Francesco Guicciardini

Born As:

Francesco Guicciardini

Other Names:

Born:

6 Mar 1483

Died:

22 May 1540




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Historian, dramatist and statesman                          
Selected Works:

Storie fiorentine - History of Florence; 1508-1510, No. 1
Diario di Spagna - 1512
Discorso di Logrogno - Discourse of Logrogno; 1512
Relazione di Spagna - 1514
Consolatoria - 1527
Oratio accusatoria - 1527
Oratio defensoria - 1527
Del reggimento di Firenze or Dialogo e discorsi del reggimento di Firenze - Dialogue on Florentine Government or Dialogue on the Government of Florence; 1527

Considerazioni intorno ai Discorsi del Machiavelli sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio - Observations on Machiavelli's Discourses; 1528, or possibly 1530.

Ricordi or Ricordi politici - as the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica refers to it or Ricordi civili e politici - the name given by Giuseppe Canestrini when he first published the book in 1857 or Ricordi politici e civili - as the Catholic Encyclopedia refers to it; in English, usually the Ricordi but called Maxims and Reflections - Ricordi in one translation and Counsels and Reflections in another - 1512-1530.

Le cose fiorentine - History of Florence; 1528-1531, No. 2
Storia d'Italia - History of Italy; 1537-1540                          
                          
                          
Guicciardini is considered as the Father of Modern History, due to his use of government documents to verify his "History of Italy."