GUIDICCIONI, GIOVANNI. - Diplomat, b. in Lucca on 25 February 1500, d. in Macerata on 26 July 1541. Secretary of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, governor of Rome when Farnese became Pope Paul III, bishop of Fossombrone. In 1535 he was sent as nuncio to Spain to Charles V, whom he later followed to Tunisia and to Provence. He was president of Romagna and, in the war against Ascanio Colonna, commissary general of the pontifical army.

In the Lettere di negozi (in Opere, 2 vols., Florence 1867), stylistically comparable to those of Guicciardini, he gives an account of his diplomatic activity. Among his speeches, the Orazione ai nobili di Lucca (Rome

1945, edited by C. Dionisotti, see introduction pp. 5-81) in defense of the "straccioni." He also composed Rime (Bari 1914) of Petrarchan intonation. Of the humanistic and Christian wisdom of G. spoke A. Caro in the Lettere familiari (Florence 1920, pp. 272-80), on the occasion of his death.

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BIBL.: E. Chiorboli, G. G., Jesi 1907; L. Berra, Nuove lettere di mons. G. G., in Giorn. stor., 79 (1922), pp. 274-89; E. Allodoli, L'oraz. di F. Robertelli per la morte del G., in Rinascita, 5 (1942), pp. 372-406.

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