Storia d'Italia: Con una Prefazione di Carlo Botta (6 Volume Set, Fine Bindings)

Francesco Guicciardini; Giovanni Rosini

Parigi : Presso Baudry, 1832

6 volume set. Fine bindings. 22 cm. 3/4 dark green Moroccan leather over marbled green boards. Marbled end pages. Internally, generally clean and unmarked, with foxing. Frontispiece portrait in vol. 1.  "Saggio sulle azioni e sulle opere di Francesco Guicciardini, scritto dal professor Giovanni Rosini": v. 1, p. [5]-41. Treats the history of Italy between 1490 and 1532.

Francesco Guicciardini was a noted writer of Italian political history in the 16th century. His use of government documents to help write his history was an advance in historiography. Guicciardini served Florence as an ambassador to the Papal States, the court of Ferdinand of Spain, and was active with the Medici regime. Guicciardini wrote the history of Italy for posterity. His analysis and interweaving of political dynamics gives the work lasting relevance.