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en-wikipedia-org-463		Francesco Guicciardini - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4189	526	67	In his masterpiece, The History of Italy, Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time. Guicciardini is best known as the author of the Storia d'Italia (History of Italy), which provides a detailed account of politics in the Italian Peninsula between 1490 and 1534. Guicciardini and Machiavelli on politics and history[edit] ^ Sydney Alexander, Introduction to Francesco Guicciardini, The History of Italy, (Princeton, 1969), p. ^ Felix Gilbert, Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence (Princeton, 1985) ^ Francesco Guicciardini The History of Italy, translated and edited by Sydney Alexander, (Princeton, 1969), p.363 ^ Sidney Alexander, Introduction to Francesco Guicciardini, The History of Italy (Princeton: 1969), p.xv. ^ Sidney Alexander, Introduction to Francesco Guicciardini, The History of Italy (Princeton: 1969), p.xv. Works by or about Francesco Guicciardini at Internet Archive	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-463.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-463.txt