Francesco Guicciardini , in French François Guichardin , (Florence, 1482 - Arcetri, 1540), is a Historien Florentin.

He was ambassador near the king Ferdinand II of Aragon, Cosme de Médicis (incoherent dates) --> and then of the pope Leon X.

Its statue appears in the Piazzale of the Offices of Florence, among the great men Tuscan.