Lodovico Guicciardini
Frontispiece to Description of the Low Countries, 1567
Map of the center of The Hague from Guicciardini's book
Lodovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521 – 22 March 1589) was an Italian writer and merchant from Florence who lived primarily in Antwerp. He was the nephew of historian and diplomat Francesco Guicciardini.
Description of the Low Countries
His best-known work, the Descrittione di Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti detti Germania inferiore (1567, Description of the Low Countries), was an influential account of the history and the arts of the Low Countries, accompanied by city maps by various leading engravers.
Death
Guicciardini died in Antwerp in 1589; he was buried there in the Cathedral of Our Lady.
References
- Guicciardini, Lodovico [Lodovico di Jacopo di Piero Guicciardini, Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, [accessed November 22, 2007].
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- Guicciardini in the Dictionary of Art Historians
- Online version in English
- Online version of original 1567 copy, digitized by the Digital Library of the University of Bologna
- Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi 1567
- Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi 1581
- Description de Touts les Pays Bas 1582
- Descripción de Todos los Países Bajos 1636
- Belgicae, sive Infererioris Germaniae Descriptio 1652
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