Benedetto Accolti (other)
Benedetto Accolti is the name of: *Benedetto Accolti the Elder (1415–1464), Italian jurist and historian *Benedetto Accolti the Younger (1497–1549), Italian cardinal See also

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Benedetto Accolti The Elder
Benedetto Accolti (1415 in Arezzo26 September 1464 in Florence) was an Italian jurist, humanist and historian. He was born at Arezzo in Tuscany, of a prominent family, several members of which were distinguished like himself for their attainments in law. He was for some time professor of law in the University of Florence, and after the dismissal in 1456 from the Florentine chancellorship of the renowned humanist Poggio Bracciolini for incompetence and an interregnum of two years, Accolti himself became Chancellor of the Florentine Republic in 1458. Accolti's memory was prodigious. Having, one day, heard a speech delivered by an ambassador from the king of Hungary to the Florentine government, he afterwards repeated it, word for word. Accolti wrote in Latin a history of the First Crusade, entitled ''De Bello a Christianis contra Barbaros gesto pro Christi Sepulchro et Judaea recuperandis libri IV'' (1464), or "On the War carried on by the Christians against the Barbarians, for th ...
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