BERNARDO DI NICOLO MACHIAVELLI

'Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli' ((between 1426 and 1429)-1500), was a citizen of Florence and father to Niccolo Machiavelli. A lawyer by trade, debts inherited from his father and uncles limited his career preventing him from joining the legal guild. He is known independently for his diaries, or "libro di ricordi", chronicling the years 1474-1487. The pages, housed in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence, serve as a valuable window into everyday life and culture during the time. Machiavelli was married to Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli. They had four children, Primavera, Margherita, Niccolò and Totto.

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Catherine Atkinson: ''Debts, dowries, donkeys. The diary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s father, messer Bernardo, in Quattrocento Florence'', Frankfurt a. M. 2002, ISBN 3-631-38351-7
Cesare Olschki, Hrsg.: ''Bernardo Machiavelli, Libro di Ricordi'', Florenz 1954.