Guicciardini, Francesco | Sheila ffolliott (essay date 1982)
Sheila ffolliott (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Francesco Guicciardini's Report from Spain: Introduction," Allegorica, Vol. VII, No. 1, Summer, 1982, pp. 60-2.
[In the following essay, ffolliott describes the Report from Spain as a genre of writing new to the Renaissance, and observes that this report reveals much about the Florentine Republic's relationship with Spain at a particular point in history.]
The Report from Spain was written by the Florentine lawyer and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1482-1540) while he was Ambassador at the Court of King Ferdinand in 1512-1513 on behalf of the Florentine Republic.1 It is a unique document never before wholly translated into English: a distillation of Guicciardini's Spanish experience about which. he also wrote a travel diary and numerous letters.2 It is significant in being, according to Vincent Luciani, author of the most thorough account of...
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