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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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    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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    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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    significant number of contemporary accounts, including those of Francesco Guicciardini, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Blaise de Montluc. After 1503, most of...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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