Il copialettere di Francesco Guicciardini : nel cantiere della Storia d'Italia

Among what must have been the numerous papers occupying the desk of Francesco Guicciardini when he was writing the Storia d'Italia was a copialettere, a codex now partly preserved in the Guicciardini Archive and partly in the State Archive, both in Florence. The codex contains today copies of 258 letters sent, and received, between June 1526 and February 1527, by Guicciardini, who was at the time lieutenant of the pontifical army, which had sided in the League of Cognac against Emperor Charles V. In light of the studies carried out by Roberto Ridolfi and Paola Moreno, it may be seen how these papers clarify the dynamics of rewriting that operated in the correspondence: when the letters were later merged in the copialettere, they became a useful historiographic source for the first draft of book XVII of the Storia. In this sense they contribute to the reconstruction the long process that led from the Commentari della luogotenenza to the historiographical masterpiece. [Publisher's text]

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