GIOVANNI BATTISTA See also:

• GIOVANNI BATTISTA ADRIANI (1513-1579)

ADRIANI (1513-1579)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian historian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of a patrician See also:

• FAMILY

family of See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, and was secretary to the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic of Florence . He was among the de-fenders of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city during the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of 1530, but subsequently joined the See also:

• MEDICI
• MEDICI, GIACOMO (1817-1882)

Medici party and was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric at the university . At the instance of Cosimo I. he wrote a See also:

• HISTORY

history of his own times, from 1536 to 1574, in Italian, which is generally, but according to See also:

• BRUNET, JACQUES CHARLES (178o-1867)

Brunet erroneously, considered a continuation of See also:

• GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO (1483-1540)

Guicciardini . De See also:

• THOU, JACQUES AUGUSTE DE [THUANUS] (1553-1617)
• THOU, NOM

Thou acknowledges himself greatly indebted to this history, praising it especially for its accuracy . See also:

• ADRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1513-1579)

Adriani composed funeral orations in Latin on the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles V. and other See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble personages, and was the author of a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter on See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient painters and sculptors prefixed to the third See also:

• VOLUME

volume of See also:

• VASARI, GIORGIO (1511-1571)

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
• BRESCIA (anc. Brixia)

Brescia, 1753) .