Note 252 — No. 264. [Steele. From Thursday, Dec. 14, to Saturday Dec. 16, 1710.
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Francis Guicciardini, politician and historian, was born at Florence in 1482. He died in 1540, and his lengthy "History of Italy" was published in 1561. An article on Guicciardini, by Mr. John Morley, appeared in the Nineteenth Century for November 1897.