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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Some dustmarking on top edge and cover spine faded. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Francesco Vettori (1474-1539) colleague of Machiavelli and Guicciardini was recognized by his contemporaries as a major influence in Florentine politics especially during the period of the later Medici but this is the first full-length modern study to be devoted to him for over half a century. His career spanned more than thirty years of European history and took him at various times to the French German and papal courts during a period which witnessed the Hapsburg-Valois struggle for supremacy in Italy the sack of Rome in 1527 and the siege of Florence in 1529-30. Drawing on unpublished archival sources Dr Devonshire Jones builds up from Vettori’s despatches letters and his political and historical writings a detailed account as seen at first hand of Renaissance diplomacy and of political life in Florence under both republican and Medici regimes.