Francesco Guicciardini

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A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this volume chart his career chronologically, revealing an intellectual whose philosophy of self-interest failed not only to perceive the interests of others but ultimately to serve his own. During Guicciardini’s life, Florentine politics was dominated by the struggle of republican leaders to retain civic political autonomy against the ambitions of the Medici family. Like Machiavelli and Petrarch, and arguably even Dante, Guicciardini was what Carlo Celli calls an “establishment intellectual,” one whose talents furthered the hegemony of authoritarian rule against the interests of his own class. The letters, treatises, reports, and orations included in this volume span Guicciardini’s long career, from his first appointment as ambassador to the Spanish court to just a few years before his forced retirement from political life. They reveal Guicciardini’s role as a protagonist in the events related in his famous History of Italy (1540), shed light on the self-recriminations and remorse that sometimes gnawed at his conscience, and explain why, ultimately, Guicciardini fell from political grace into irrelevance. Through these previously untranslated writings, The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual evidences the hard lessons Guicciardini learned in service to the Medici: working within a corrupt system does not lead to solutions, and reason and self-interest are not foolproof guides for predicting human behavior. This book will appeal especially to scholars who study the Medici clan, the Italian Wars, and Renaissance politics and history.

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A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this volume chart his career chronologically, revealing an intellectual whose philosophy of self-interest failed not only to perceive the interests of others but ultimately to serve his own. During Guicciardini’s life, Florentine politics was dominated by the struggle of republican leaders to retain civic political autonomy against the ambitions of the Medici family. Like Machiavelli and Petrarch, and arguably even Dante, Guicciardini was what Carlo Celli calls an “establishment intellectual,” one whose talents furthered the hegemony of authoritarian rule against the interests of his own class. The letters, treatises, reports, and orations included in this volume span Guicciardini’s long career, from his first appointment as ambassador to the Spanish court to just a few years before his forced retirement from political life. They reveal Guicciardini’s role as a protagonist in the events related in his famous History of Italy (1540), shed light on the self-recriminations and remorse that sometimes gnawed at his conscience, and explain why, ultimately, Guicciardini fell from political grace into irrelevance. Through these previously untranslated writings, The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual evidences the hard lessons Guicciardini learned in service to the Medici: working within a corrupt system does not lead to solutions, and reason and self-interest are not foolproof guides for predicting human behavior. This book will appeal especially to scholars who study the Medici clan, the Italian Wars, and Renaissance politics and history.

Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) var en italiensk statsmand, historiker og politisk teoretiker, der var personlig ven med Niccolò Machiavelli. I 1500-tallets krigshærgede Italien indtog han høje poster i Kirkestaten, hvor han demonstrerede sine rige politiske og diplomatiske evner. Som historiker og forfatter er han bedst kendt for sit monumentale værk Storia d’Italia, men essensen af ”mennesket Guicciardini” finder vi i den langt mindre omfangsrige aforismesamling, Råd og refleksioner (Ricordi), som kun kan sammenlignes med Machiavellis Fyrsten. I Guicciardinis som i Machiavellis verden er politik = magtkamp, og i denne kamp spiller etik, moral, sandhed o. lign. enten en instrumentel rolle eller slet ingen. Det er ikke et teoretisk standpunkt, men en daglig erfaring (dengang og nu). Guicciardini forstår derfor al politisk og social handling som baseret på egeninteressen (el particulare). Men hvor Machiavelli begrænser sig til fyrstens eller magthaverens virkefelt, inddrager Guicciardini en langt bredere problemkreds, således at hvad der gælder for den politiske sfære også gøres til norm for den private. Råd og refleksioner er et koncentrat af et intenst og begivenhedsrigt livs tanker og erfaringer og indeholder en lang række usminkede og skarpsindige anvisninger for den praktiske livsførelse, der fungerer lige så godt i dag som for 500 år siden og stadig kan gøre os klogere på menneskelivet. Det er første gang, at et værk af Francesco Guicciardini foreligger på dansk. Interesseret i at vide mere? Så prøv AI (kunstig intelligens). Brug: bing.com - Tryk øverst: Copilot - Spørg om: Fritz Wolder Råd og refleksioner HelikonAndre italienske renæssance-klassikere fra Forlaget HELIKON:Niccolò Machiavelli Fyrsten (1998/2012)Niccolò Machiavelli Drøftelser af Livius (Discorsi) (2004)Niccolò Machiavelli Krigskunsten (2020)

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Trinity College Library Watkinson CollectionN017853Vols. 2,3,5 bear the title 'The history of Italy, written in Italian .. '. Vols. 1-3 are dated 1755; vol. 5, 1756. London: printed by John Towers, 1755-56. v.1-3,5; 8

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ]+++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT138170Running title: 'The history of the wars in Italy'. London: printed for Z. Stuart, 1763. 10v.; 8

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT138170Running title: 'The history of the wars in Italy'. London: printed for Z. Stuart, 1763. 10v.; 8

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT138170Running title: 'The history of the wars in Italy'. London: printed for Z. Stuart, 1763. 10v.; 8

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT138170Running title: 'The history of the wars in Italy'. London: printed for Z. Stuart, 1763. 10v.; 8

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT138169Vols.2-10 bear the title 'The history of Italy, written in Italian .. '. With lists of subscribers in vols.1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 & 10. Vols.1-4 are dated 1753, 5-7 1754, 8 1755 and 9 & 10 1756. In this edition of vol. 4, the "V" of "Vol." on the titlepage iLondon: printed by John Towers, 1753-56. 10v.; 8

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT138169Vols.2-10 bear the title 'The history of Italy, written in Italian .. '. With lists of subscribers in vols.1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 & 10. Vols.1-4 are dated 1753, 5-7 1754, 8 1755 and 9 & 10 1756. In this edition of vol. 4, the "V" of "Vol." on the titlepage iLondon: printed by John Towers, 1753-56. 10v.; 8

Noi ci partimo di Firenze a d 29 di gennaio 1511 e la sera andamo a Pistoia a casa Gualtieri Panciatichi, dove come fussimo trattati non accade riferire, perch el principio fu di qualit che se e' mezzi e gli effetti corrispondessino meriteremo troppa invidia. Da Pistoia ne venimo a d 30 a Lucca discosto a Pistoia venti miglia, delle qualit della quale non possiamo molto parlare perch ne vedemo pi fuora che drento, conciosiach giunti per la via di Pescia alle mura, l'avemo a girare pi che mezza innanzi che trovassimo la porta; nondimeno la terra ci parve maninconica, che in piano ma molto sotto a' monti; el contado verso Pisa e Pescia poco; distendesi verso Pietrasanta ed buono e bene cultivato, e bench da quella banda fussi la pace di Ottaviano, pure vi si stette con poco riposo, perch tutta la notte sentimo campane e gridi di guardie non altrimenti che se fussimo in mezzo la guerra. A Dio piaccia ridurgli in termini che e' non abbino a pensare pi alla guardia della terra; e la dichiarazione di queste parole si stenda a senno del savio nostro. A d 31 partiti da Lucca e passato da Massarogia villa discosto da Lucca otto miglia e capitati a Pietrasanta lontana miglia otto, bench non entrassimo drento ci parve ricevessi torto grande a essere sotto el dominio de' lucchesi, perch oltre allo essere discosto da Lucca miglia sedici, grossa terra: ha uno contado felice, bene cultivato, pieno di ulivi, anzi di boschi di ulivi, tutto fertile e fruttifero. La condizione delle cose di Italia, nella quale si sono riparati meglio e' piccoli che e' grandi, ha condotto e' lucchesi signori di una terra di qualit che loro medesimo n'hanno pi vergogna che gloria; e se gli vero che le cose non naturale durino poco, sar uno governo di pidocchi che non aggiungono a uno mese se non per miracolo. La sera alloggiamo a Massa discosto a Pietrasanta miglia sei; terra ricca presso alla marina a uno miglio; nne signore Alberico Malespina, uomo vecchio e sanza figliuoli maschi, el quale ancora signore di Carrara, Lavenza, e Moneta, e bench abbi poca entrata, che non passa ducati dumila cinquecento l'anno, pure signoria di qualche momento per la commodit del luogo, che in sulla marina, oportuno alle cose di Pietrasanta e Lunigiana, ed avere in Massa una fortezza bellissima e forte.

In 1576, the humanist Antoine de Laval produced the first French-language version of Francesco Guicciardini's Ricordi. At a time when the role and functions of sovereignty were in the midst of a crisis, Antoine de Laval offered a collection of maxims for use at court in order to defend the unity and stability of the monarchy.