Francesco Vettori
Illustration — Coat of arms of the Vettori family. Francesco Vettori (1474–1539) was an Italian diplomat, politician and writer from Florence. He served his city during both the republican and the de Medici regimes.
Francesco Vettori
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- Born
- 1474 · Florence.
- Died
- 1539 · Florence.
- Nationality
- Republic of Florence
- Occupation
- diplomat · politician · historian · writer
- Fields
- diplomacy · literature
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Coat of arms of the Vettori family. Francesco Vettori (1474–1539) was an Italian diplomat, politician and writer from Florence. He served his city during both the republican and the de Medici regimes.
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He is remembered chiefly as one of the main personal correspondents of Niccolò Machiavelli, but he also published some small works himself in the same period. Vettori's correspondence with Machiavelli includes some of the only surviving written discussions about the writing of Machiavelli's "little work", which was to become The Prince. The correspondence is considered to be amongst the most well known in Italian. Other works by Vettori are a Sommario della istoria d'Italia ("Summary of the History of Italy") and a collection of stories called Viaggio in Alamagna ("Journey in Germany").
Indexed under French Urban and Social Studies, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Medieval and Early Modern Justice, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, European Political History Analysis. Associated with Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione Innovazione e Ricerca Educativa. Recorded as diplomat, politician, historian and writer.
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1474
Francesco Vettori born at Florence.
1539
Francesco Vettori died at Florence.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 15 August 2026.
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