Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (died 1540)

Francesco Guicciardini

Italian writer, historian, and politician (1483–1540)

Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. In his masterpiece, The History of Italy, Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in…