Lodovico Guicciardini
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Lodovico Guicciardini (Florence, 19 August 1521–Antwerp, 22 March 1589) was an Italian writer and merchant who lived primarily in Antwerp. His best-known work, the Descrittione di Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti detti Germania inferiore (1567)—published in English in 1597 as The Description of the Low Countreys—was an influential account of the history and the arts of the Low Countries. Lodovico was the nephew of Francesco Guicciardini. He is buried in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp.
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- "Guicciardini, Lodovico [Lodovico di Jacopo di Piero Guicciardini]," Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, [accessed November 22, 2007].
