“The future is so deceptive and subject to so many accidents that it is rare for he who is prescient to not be wrong.”

About Francesco Guicciardini

Historian • Italian

Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian, writer, and statesman, and a friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli. Guicciardini is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. His most...