Jacopo Riguccio Galluzzi

Jacopo Riguccio Galluzzi (25 April 1739 – 24 September 1801) was an Italian writer and historian, mainly of the Medici dynasty and era in Florence.

He obtained a salaried position in the State department of the Grand Duchy, and in 1768 was appointed professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Florence.

In 1769, Riguccio, along with Carlo Bonsi and Ferdinando Fossi, was appointed by Grand-Duke Leopold with the gargantuan task of reorganizing the archives of the Secretary of State of Tuscany.

He wrote a history of the House of Medici, including of the last of grand-duke of the family, Gian Gastone.

[1] During the occupation of Tuscany by the French Revolutionary armies, in 1798 he also joined the French-backed puppet government.