Resumen de Guicciardini e la 'rovina d’Italia': venti lettere e un ricordo inedito del Luogotenente.
This article sheds light on the role played by Francesco Guicciardini in the last six months of his tenure as Luogotenente generale, on behalf of Pope Clement VII. Focusing on the dramatic period from January to June 1527, this essay unveils a series of letters sent by Guicciardini to the Otto di Pratica, the executive magistrate of the Florentine Republic at this time. These letters were hitherto known only through the drafts kept in the Archivio Guicciardini, but not through the originals sent and received. The overall perspective shifts and reshapes the portrait of the Luogotenente as a man of action who makes bold decisions in order to protect his homeland, Florence, while unwittingly condemning Rome to the Sack
