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ADRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1513-1579)

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ADRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1513-1579) , See also:Italian historian, was See also:born of a patrician See also:family of See also:Florence, and was secretary to the See also:republic of Florence. He was among the de-fenders of the See also:city during the See also:siege of 1530, but subsequently joined the See also:Medici party and was appointed See also:professor of See also:rhetoric at the university. At the instance of Cosimo I. he wrote a See also:history of his own times, from 1536 to 1574, in Italian, which is generally, but according to See also:Brunet erroneously, considered a continuation of See also:Guicciardini. De See also:Thou acknowledges himself greatly indebted to this history, praising it especially for its accuracy. Adriani composed funeral orations in Latin on the See also:emperor See also:Charles V. and other See also:noble personages, and was the author of a See also:long See also:letter on See also:ancient painters and sculptors prefixed to the third See also:volume of See also:Vasari. His Isloria dei suoi tempi was published in Florence in 1583; a new edition appeared also in Florence in 1872. See G. M. Mazzucchelli, Gli Scrittori d' Italia, i. p. 151 (See also:Brescia, 1753).

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