Lodovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521 – 22 March 1589)
was an
Italian
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writer
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and
merchant
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from
Florence
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who lived primarily in
Antwerp
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Francesco Guicciardini
Francesco Guicciardini (; 6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540) 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 ...
.
''Description of the Low Countries''
His best-known work, the ''Descrittione di Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti detti Germania inferiore'' (1567, ''Description of the Low Countries''), was an influential account of the history and the arts of the
Low Countries
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, accompanied by
city map
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s by various leading engravers.
Death
Guicciardini died in Antwerp in 1589;
he was buried there in the
Cathedral of Our Lady.
Gallery
File:Guicciardini Map of 's-Hertogenbosch.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Amsterdam.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Antwerp.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Belgium and Netherlands.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Brabant.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Bruges.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Brussels.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Flanders.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Ghent.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Hainaut.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Holland.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Liege.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Louvain.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Mechelen.png
File:Guicciardini Map of Ypres.png
File:Guicciardini Title page.png
References
Sources
Guicciardini,_Lodovico_[Lodovico_di_Jacopo_di_Piero_Guicciardini,_''Grove_Art_Online'',_Oxford_University_Press.html" ;"title="odovico di Jacopo di Piero Guicciardini">Guicciardini, Lodovico [Lodovico di Jacopo di Piero Guicciardini
, ''Grove Art Online'', Oxford University Press">odovico di Jacopo di Piero Guicciardini">Guicciardini, Lodovico [Lodovico di Jacopo di Piero Guicciardini
, ''Grove Art Online'', Oxford University Press, [accessed November 22, 2007
External links
Online version of original 1567 copy digitized by the Digital Library of the
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...
Digital copies of maps from Descrittione di m. Lodouico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi, Antwerp: 1567.at the
John Carter Brown Library
The John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded research library of history and the humanities on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The library's rare book, manuscript, and map collections encompass a variety of ...
Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi 1567Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi 1581Description de Touts les Pays Bas 1582Descripción de Todos los Países Bajos 1636Belgicae, sive Infererioris Germaniae Descriptio 1652
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1521 births
1589 deaths
Writers from Florence
16th-century Italian historians
Writers from Antwerp
Italian expatriates in the Netherlands