Abstract
Guicciardini’s Discourse to Pope Leo X and Francis I, which was originally brought to light and partially edited by Roberto Ridolfi, is here published for the first time in its entirety, including a portion in Latin accompanied by a non-literal translation. This is one of the many “secret” texts written by the Florentine historian, and it reveals aspects of his early period which are still rather obscure, including the strong tie he established between rhetoric and legal knowledge, his relations with the Pope even before actually entering in the latter’s service and his political observations on the European alliance system at the outbreak of the Italian conflict. Moreover, with this complete edition and its codicological and historical analysis of the text, an ongoing misunderstanding has finally been clarified: the verses situated at the end of the text are not to be attributed to the author of Storia d’Italia, but rather to Petrarch.
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