« L'ANIMO CIASCUNA SUA PASSION SOTTO EL CONTRARIO MANTO RICOPRE »: Guichardin et les passions « italiennes » dans le livre I des Essais.

The study analyzes the relationship between history and the passions through the borrowings from the Storia d'Italia by François Guichardin. Guichardin's influence on the author of the Essays seems to extend to both the content and the form of the borrowed texts (their style, description techniques, and so on), and indeed to the treatment of the passions described. The analysis of the examples borrowed from Guichardin in Book I of the Essays leads to some initial conclusions, although there is further research yet to be done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]