Marco Antonio Guarini (

Ferrara Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...

1570 – 1638) was an Italian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and

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, nephew of

Giovanni Battista Guarini Giovanni Battista Guarini (10 December 1538 – 7 October 1612) was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Courtier at Ferrara, diplomat and secretary to several ruling families, he served also at Florence and Urbino. He is best known as the a ...

and author of the ''Compendio Historico'' and of the ''Famiglie illustri della città di Ferrara''.

The ''Compendio Historico''

His principal work is the ''Compendio Historico'', also known as: In his work, Guarini cites Ugo de' Pagani: And also Raffaella Aleotti:

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Guarini, Marco Antonio 17th-century Italian historians Italian male non-fiction writers 17th-century Italian male writers Place of birth missing 1570 births 1638 deaths Writers from Ferrara

The ''Compendio Historico''

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