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Francesco Guicciardini  

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  • Francesco Guicciardini, most famous for his historical writings, is nevertheless an important theoretical progenitor of modern representative democracy. A younger, but much wealthier and more prominent contemporary of Niccolò Machiavelli's, Guicciardini served over a long political career in roles as diverse as ambassador for the Florentine republic and administrator for Medici princes and popes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Guicciardini, Francesco (1483–1540)]

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