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Messer Giovanni Guicciardini
Florentine diplomat and historian, contemporary of Machiavelli.
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Also known as Messer Giovanni
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Messer Giovanni Guicciardini shows up with force in Chapter VIII. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Florentine commander at the siege of Lucca, falsely calumniated for bribery, unable to clear himself due to lack of impeachment laws.
Messer Giovanni Guicciardini first appears in 0004 i.
In Chapter VIII: Florentine commander at the siege of Lucca, falsely calumniated for bribery, unable to clear himself due to lack of impeachment laws.
Later, in XVI: Referenced as Messer Ciriaco del Borgo, the veteran leader of the Florentine foot, who commented on the disorder caused by friendly cavalry.
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