Francesco Vettori

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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. 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").

References

Najemy, John (1993), Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters
of 1513-1515, Princeton University Press

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1996), Machiavelli and his friends: Their personal correspondence, Northern Illinois
University Press. Translated and edited by James B. Atkinson and David Sices.

Connell, William J. (2011), "New Light on Machiavelli's Letter to Vettori, 10 December 1513" (PDF),
Europa e Italia. Studi in onore di Giorgio Chittolini / Europe and Italy. Studies in honour of Giorgio
Chittolini: 93–127, archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2012, retrieved 20 October 2012.

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