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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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    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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    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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    significant number of contemporary accounts, including those of Francesco Guicciardini, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Blaise de Montluc. After 1503, most of...
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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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    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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    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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    others – including Francis I himself – were captured. The historian Francesco Guicciardini summarised the clash as follows: The King, fighting very gallantly...
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    noblewoman from the Papal States. According to the Renaissance historian Francesco Guicciardini, Fernando d'Ávalos considered himself more Spanish than Italian...
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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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    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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    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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    Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared...
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  • Italian calligrapher and type designer (died 1527) 1483: 6 March – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman 1483: 19 April – Paolo Giovio,...
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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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    of the period include Machiavelli himself, his friend and critic Francesco Guicciardini and Giovanni Botero (The Reason of State). The Aldine Press, founded...
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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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    granducale. Guicciardini, Francesco (2019). Celli, Carlo (ed.). The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual: selected writings of Francesco Guicciardini. Early...
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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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    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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    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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    Cornelis Drebbel Desiderius Erasmus Marsilio Ficino Pietro Pomponazzi Francesco Guicciardini Michel de Montaigne Thomas More Antonio Serra Francisco Suárez Bernardino...
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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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    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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  • Stultitiae Laus (The Praise of Folly) Fortunatus (published in Augsburg) Francesco Guicciardini – Storie fiorentine (History of Florence) Manjarasa – Samyukta Koumudi...
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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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  • first published 1875) Gabriele Fallopius – Observationes anatomicae Francesco Guicciardini (posthumously) – Storia d'Italia (History of Italy, first 16 of...
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    Florence, Italy, on the occasion of Shrove Tuesday, martedí grasso. Francesco Guicciardini's The History of Florence gives a firsthand account of the 1497 Florentine...
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    Minghetti in 1886, he became leader of the Right. Early in 1891, he succeeded Francesco Crispi as premier and minister of foreign affairs, forming a coalition...
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