BENEDETTO See also:

• BENEDETTO VARCHI (1502-1565)

VARCHI (1502-1565)  , Florentine historian . He fought in the See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of See also:

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

Florence during the See also:

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

siege by the Mediceans and imperialists in 1530, and was exiled after the surrender of the See also:

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

city . In 1536 he took See also:

• PART

part in See also:

• PIERO (1443—1496)

Piero See also:

• STROZZI

Strozzi's unsuccessful expedition against Medicean See also:

• RULE

rule, but seven years later he was called back to Florence by Cosimo I., who gave him a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension and commissioned him to write a See also:

• HISTORY

history of the city; the See also:

• WORK

work covers the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period from 1527 to 1538 . See also:

• VARCHI, BENEDETTO (1502-1565)

Varchi also wrote a number of plays, poems, dialogues and See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations from the See also:

• CLASSICS

classics . His history, in sixteen books, was first published in Florence in 1721 .