Maxims and Reflections

"In the history of Renaissance thought, Guicciardini's Ricordioccupy a place of singular importance. Few works of the sixteenth century allow us so penetrating an insight into the views and sentiments of its author as these reflections of the great Italian historian. . . . Like Machiavelli's Prince, the Ricordiform one of the outstanding documents of a time of crisis and transition; but unlike the Prince, they range over a wide field of private as well as public life. In doing so, they revel the man as well as the political theorist."-Nicolai Rubenstein, from the IntroductionGuicciardini, Francesco is the author of 'Maxims and Reflections', published 1972 under ISBN 9780812210378 and ISBN 0812210379.