Scipione Ammirato
Scipione Ammirato (1531 - 1601) is a Historien Italy N born with Lecce, in the kingdom of Naples. Its father, which wanted that it makes legal studies, sent it to study the right to Naples, but the preference of Scipione for the literature prevented it from making the career wished by his/her father.
Biography
Entered with the service of the Church, Scipione Ammirato remained a certain time with Venice, then it engaged with the service of the pope Pie IV. In 1569, it left for Florence, where it succeeds in making sure the support of the duke Cosme Ier de Médicis. This patron allowed him to settle with the Médicis palate and the Zopaja Villa, in the condition that it wrote his Histoires florentines there ( Istorie Florentine ), which are its most known work today.
In 1595, he became canon with the cathedral of Florence. He died in 1601.
Among its works, of which some were published only after its death, are speeches on Tacite, and the genealogy of families of Naples and Florence. ----
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