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Guicciardini resigned this post after the Medici pope's death in 1534, and returned to Florence, where he was enlisted as advisor to Alessandro de Medici, “ whose position as duke had become less secure following the death of the pope .” Guiccardini defended him in Naples in 1535 before Charles V, contesting the exiled rebels ' accusations of tyranny.
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Guicciardini and after
Shortly after the Sack of Rome Guicciardini returned to Florence, but by 1527 the Medici had been expelled from the city and a republic re-established by the extreme anti-Medici Arrabiati faction.
Guicciardini supported Cosimo as duke of Florence, however, Cosimo dismissed him shortly after his rise to power and Guicciardini retired to his villa in Arcetri, where he spent his last years working on the Storia d ' Italia.
Guicciardini and Medici
The Guicciardini were well-established members of the Florentine oligarchy as well as supporters of the Medici.
Guicciardini insisted on being recalled and even sent a letter to the youthful Lorenzo de ’ Medici in an attempt to secure a position in the new ruling group.
Like many Florentine aristocrats of his day, Guicciardini believed in a mixed republican government based on the model of the Venetian constitution ; and despite working so often and closely with the Medici he viewed their rule as tyrannical.
Guicciardini was able to reconcile his republican ideals and his support of the Medici, writing: " The equality of men under a popular government is by no means contradicted if one citizen enjoys greater reputation than another, provided it proceed from the love and reverence of all, and can be witheld by the people at their pleasure.
Because of his close ties to the Medici, Guicciardini was held suspect in his native city.
In March 1530 as a result of his service to the Medici, Guicciardini was declared a rebel and had his property confiscated.
Under the command of Pope Clement VII, Guicciardini was assigned the task of punishing the Florentine citizens for their resistance to the Medici, dealing out justice mercilessly to those who had opposed the will of the Pope.
After the murder of Duke Alessandro in 1537, Guicciardini allied himself with Cosimo de ' Medici, who was just seventeen years old at the time and new to the Florentine political system.
Guicciardini and death
The death of an uncle, who had occupied the see of Cortona, induced the young Guicciardini to seek an ecclesiastical career.
Guicciardini was friends with Niccolò Machiavelli ; the two maintained a lively correspondence until the latter's death in 1527.
Guicciardini and 1534
Guicciardini is best known as the author of the Storia d ' Italia ( The History of Italy ), which provides a detailed account of politics in the Italian Peninsula between 1490 and 1534.
Guicciardini and returned
Guicciardini eventually returned home to Florence, where he took up his law practice again ; in 1514 he served as a member of the Otto di Balìa, who controlled internal security, and in 1515 served on the Signoria, the highest Florentine magistracy.
Guicciardini and Florence
" Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the Tradition of Vernacular Historiography in Florence ," The American Historical Review ( Volume 84, Number 1, 1979 ): 86 – 105.
Palazzo Guicciardini in Florence
Francesco Guicciardini was born 6 March 1483 in Florence, Italy ; he was the third of eleven children of Piero di Iacopo Guicciardini and Simona di Bongianni Gianfigliazzi.
In the same year, he wrote the Memorie di famiglia, a family memoir of the Guicciardini family, the Storie Fiorentine ( The History of Florence ), and began his Ricordanze, a rudimentary personal chronicle of his life.
Under the new regime, his embassy in Spain dragged on, frustrating Guicciardini as he yearned to return to Florence and participate in political life.
Statue of Guicciardini in the Uffizi, Florence.
Guicciardini and where
Cigoli was responsible for the design of the chancel whose patrons were the Guicciardini family ( and where the famous historian Francesco was buried in 1540 ).
Villa Ravà in Arcetri, former home of the Guicciardini family, where Francesco Guicciardini wrote The History of Italy
Guicciardini and was
Dallington advocated travel, indeed the Grand Tour, while Hall was minatory about its effects ; Dallington wrote aphorisms following Lipsius and Guicciardini, while Hall had moved away from the Tacitist strand in humanist thought to the more conservative Senecan tendency with which he was permanently to be associated.
Francesco Guicciardini ( 6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540 ) was an Italian historian and statesman.
Having distinguished himself in the practice of law, in 1512 Guicciardini was entrusted by the Florentine Signoria with an embassy to the court of the King of Aragon, Ferdinand the Catholic.
This was the beginning of a long career for Guicciardini in papal administration, first under Leo X, and then his successor, Clement VII.
Guicciardini was powerless to influence the commander of papal forces Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino to take action.
Although Guicciardini served three popes over a period of twenty years, or perhaps because of this, he was highly critical of the papacy, writing:
Benedetto Varchi claimed that in carrying out his task, " Messer Francesco Guicciardini was more cruel and more ferocious than the others.
In 1531 Guicciardini was assigned the governorship of Bologna, the most important city in the northern Papal States by Clement VII.
His nephew, Lodovico Guicciardini, was also a historian known for his 16th-century works on the Low Countries.
Though Guicciardini was on a somewhat higher social standing than his friend, through their letters a relaxed, comfortable relationship between the two emerges.
Guicciardini was critical of some of the ideas expressed by Machiavelli in his Discourses on Livy, " Guicciardini's principal objection to the theories which Machiavelli advanced in the Discourses was that Machiavelli put things ' too absolutely.
Guicciardini and de
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Belleforest wrote on cosmography, morals, literature and history, and he translated the works of Matteo Bandello, Boccaccio, Antonio de Guevara, Francesco Guicciardini, Polydore Vergil, Saint Cyprian, Sebastian Münster, Achilles Tatius, Cicero and Demosthenes into French.
Guicciardini and “
* Martelli, Mario and Bausi, Francesco ( 1997 ), “ Politica, storia e letteratura: Machiavelli e Guicciardini ”, Storia della letteratura italiana, E. Malato ( ed.
His many personal encounters with powerful Italian rulers serves to explain his perspective as a historian: “ Francesco Guicciardini might be called a psychological historian — for him the motive power of the huge clockwork of events may be traced down the mainspring of individual behavior.
Francesco Guicciardini, an Italian historian and statesman, sometimes referred to as the “ Father of History ,” wrote that the cannons were placed against town walls so quickly, spaced together so closely and shot so rapidly and with such force that the time for a significant amount of damage to be inflicted went from a matter of days ( as with bombards ) to a matter of hours.
Guicciardini and position
Later another famous Italian writer, Francesco Guicciardini, held the same position.
Guicciardini and had
A major contemporary account for the early portion of the Italian Wars is Francesco Guicciardini's Storia d ' Italia ( History of Italy ), written during the conflict, and advantaged by the access Guicciardini had to Papal affairs.
Piero Guicciardini had studied with the philosopher Marsilio Ficino, who stood as his son's godfather.
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