Lodovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521 – 22 March 1589) was an

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and

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from

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who lived primarily in

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from 1542 or earlier. He was the nephew of historian and diplomat

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''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

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, accompanied by

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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

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, ''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

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Digital copies of maps from Descrittione di m. Lodouico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi, Antwerp: 1567.
at the

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Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi 1567

Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi 1581

Description de Touts les Pays Bas 1582

Descripción de Todos los Países Bajos 1636

Belgicae, sive Infererioris Germaniae Descriptio 1652
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