Francesco Vettori (1474–1539) was an Italian diplomat, politician and writer from

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. 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 Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise '' The Prince'' (), writte ...

, 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 ''

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''. The correspondence is considered to be amongst the most well known in

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. 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").

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* *. Translated and edited by James B. Atkinson and David Sices. *. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vettori, Francesco 1474 births 1539 deaths Politicians from Florence 16th-century Italian historians Italian male non-fiction writers 16th-century people from the Republic of Florence Diplomats from Florence Italian Renaissance writers 16th-century Italian diplomats 16th-century Italian writers 16th-century Italian male writers Writers from Florence Niccolò Machiavelli