Abstract
ABSTRACT Between 1500 and 1513, Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini elaborated in their writings a crossed portrait of the French and Spanish monarchies, based on their first diplomatic missions. It appears from these texts that monarchy was hard to conceptualize and hard to name for the two young Florentines. Their goal was to identify the bases of the power of these Kingdoms, while the traditional prisms of political thought appeared obsolete in front of the brutal changes that had upset the European geopolitical field since the beginning of the Italian wars. These reflections, which occurred at a crucial moment in Machiavelli and Guicciardini’s intellectual training, represented a crucial step in the construction of their political thought and in the advent of modern historiography. But it also led to a new way of looking at and carrying out diplomatic functions.
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