Lodovico Guicciardini

Lodovico Guicciardini, ndl. Lowijs Guicciardyn, GV Ludwig Guicciardin ( born August 19, 1521 Florence, † March 22, 1589 in Antwerp ) was an Italian businessman, cartographer, humanist, geographer, politician and writer. He was a nephew Francesco Guicciardini and had the same tendency to presentation of history. He became famous for its historical city views and descriptions. In the Cathedral of Our Lady of Antwerp, he is buried.

Life

Lodovico Guicciardini came from an old noble family from Florence. Many of its members clad multiple high positions in the civil service, including his uncle Francesco Guicciardini. From his youth nothing is known. At 18, he left Italy and traveled through large parts of Western Europe (France, Germany ) and in 1541 over Lyon to Antwerp, where he settled in August 1542. He started a business which went bankrupt soon, and then worked Miscellaneous own account. At the beginning of the " Dutch survey" against the Spaniards he was in the fortress Vilvoorde on the orders of Duke of Alba (1507-1582) almost one and a half years imprisoned (1569-1570) - for statements unclear contents on the situation in the country.

In Antwerp, where he lived for almost fifty years, he created his famous works. One of his first was a contemporary - current time - History of the Netherlands ( Commentarii delle cose più memorabili ... ). He first gained fame through his masterpiece, a description of Antwerp: De Nederlanden idyllic: Antwerp en de Nederlanden in de 16e eeuw - The idyllic Netherlands: Antwerp and the Netherlands in the 16th century ( 1567). His books were always provided with elaborate cards, even perspective, and drawings. The best-known and most important of his works, an illustrated history treatise of the Netherlands, the following applies:

Descrittione DI M.LODOVICO GVICCIARDINI Patritio Fiorentino; DI TVTTI I PAESI BASSI, altrimenti Detti GERMANIA INFERIOR. Con tutte le carte di paese del Geographia, & col ritratto di naturale molte terre to principal; Riueduta di nuovo, & ampliata per tutto piu che la meta dal medesimo autore. AL GRAN ' RE cattolico FILIPPO D' AVSTRIA. Con di tutte le cose amplissimo INDICE piu memorabili. IN ANVERSA. Apresso Christofano plan Tino, Stampa gates Regio. M.D.LXXXI.

In German:

DESCRIPTION OF MR (M. = Messire ) LODOVICO GUICCIARDINI patrician of Florence; AROUND THE NETHERLANDS, otherwise also GERMANIA INFERIOR ( LOW GERMANY ). With all geographic maps of the country, and with natural portrait of many major countries; reissued, and the whole extended to more than half by the same author. THE GREAT CATHOLIC KING PHILIP [ II ] D' AVSTRIA. With extensive INDEX all very memorable affairs. IN ANTWERP. In Christofano plan Tino, royal. Printer. M.D.LXXXI. ( 1581).

This work is considered to be strongly influencing contribution of the history and art of the former Netherlands. On his travels he came in various cities in the wider area and made there cityscapes and maps ( Aachen 1572).

Lodovico Guicciardini was a contemporary of Gerhard Mercator, the famous cartographer of his time, and Peter Breughel the Elder.

Works

  • Commentarii delle cose più memorabili seguite in Europe, specialmente in questi Paesi Bassi, della Pace di Cambrai, del MDXXIX, Infino a tutto l'anno MDLX - Comments on very memorable, taking place in European affairs, especially in the Netherlands, the Peace of Cambrai, in MDXXIX ( 1529), up to and including the year MDLX ( 1560). Domenico Farri, Venice 1566 ( Italian ed )
  • The groswichtigisten and manhaftigisten Hendel, or history, as in Europe, namely in Niderlant from nine and zwentzigisten ( reduce the zal ) to up auffs sechtzigiste passed iar have happened through out. Antwerp 1566. (English ed )
  • Commentariorum de rebus memorabilibus, quae in Europe, maxime vero in Belgio, from undetricesimo usque in annum MDLX evenerint. Libri tres. Antverpiae 1566; in: S. Feyerabend, ed, Annales ... 2 tom. Francofurti ad Moenum 1580, II, 97-178. (Latin ed )
  • De Nederlanden idyllic: Antwerp en de Nederlanden in de 16e eeuw Antwerp 1567 ( Ndl edition ) and M. Jacqmain, Antwerp and Amsterdam in 1987
  • Di Lodovico Guicciardini Descrittione patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti Detti Germania inferior. Willem Silvius, Antwerp 1567 (it. edition )

Former German title:

  • Niderlands Description Jn which allerdarinn begriffnen Landtschafften / F [ ue ] rstenthumben / Grey managed / Master managed / Bisthumben / Abteyen / Stetten / Schl [ oe] barrels / Vestungen / | | stains VND nãmhafftigsten Oertern / Vrsprung VND Auffgang / actually explained [ ae ] rt economic bit worn ... auff the MDLXVI Jar / acapulco ... Auss the Jtaliänischen original ... verteutschet / by Danielen Federman from Memmingen | ... In the first place | | by ... Ludwig Guicciardin of Florentz / |: . Basel: Sebastian Henric Petri in 1580 ( digitized version of the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, digitized version of the Bavarian State Library, digitized version of the Vienna University Library (eBooks on Demand); digitized by Google Books).
  • Description Niderlands concerning the origin, auffnemen and herkommens / by Ludwig Guicciardin. - Frankfurt: Sigmund Feyerabend, 1582 ( Frankfurt am Main: Peter Schmidt). Additional: "Printed on Franckfurt at Mayn by Peter Schmidt, in laying Sigmund Feyerabend 1582 "
  • Descrittione di Lodovico Guicciardini M., ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti Detti Germania Inferiore di ... Riueduta nuouo, & ampliata tutto per la terza volta del medesimo autore ... Antwerp, 1588 ( digitized )
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