Guicciardini, Francesco | Cecil Grayson (essay date 1965)
Cecil Grayson (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: Introductory Notes to Francesco Guicciardini: Selected Writings, edited and introduced by Cecil Grayson, translated by Margaret Grayson, Oxford University Press, 1965, pps. xxv, 59-60, 127-28.
[In the following brief notes, Grayson describes the contents, physical appearance, and publication history of Guicciardini's Ricordi, Considerations on the "Discourses" of Machiavelli, and Ricordanze.]
Introductory Note: Ricordi
Guicciardini made three redactions of this work. Although he began to collect together certain maxims as early as 1512, the main body of the collection, in a manuscript now lost, was put together sometime before 1525, re-copied, enlarged, and corrected in 1528, and further revised in 1530. In this process he made no fewer than 606 formulations for a total of 276 maxims, of which in the final version he discarded 55. The history of the growth and elaboration of...
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