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Italian historian
A.K.A.
Lodovico di Jacopo di Piero Guicciardini Guicciardini
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Place of birth
Florence
Place of death
Antwerp
Age
67 years
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Biography
Lodovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521 – 22 March 1589) was an Italian writer and merchant from Florence who lived primarily in Antwerp. He was the nephew of historian and diplomat Francesco Guicciardini.
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, accompanied by city maps by various leading engravers.
Death
Guicciardini died in Antwerp in 1589; he was buried there in the Cathedral of Our Lady.
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