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ACCOLTI, BENEDETTO (1415–1466)

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ACCOLTI, BENEDETTO (1415–1466) , See also:Italian jurist and historian, was See also:born at See also:Arezzo, in See also:Tuscany, of a See also:noble See also:family, several members of which were distinguished like himself for their attainments in See also:law. He was for some See also:time See also:professor of See also:jurisprudence in the university of See also:Florence, and on the See also:death of the celebrated See also:Poggio, in 1459, became See also:chancellor of the Florentine See also:republic. He died at Florence. In See also:conjunction with his See also:brother Leonardo, he wrote in Latin a See also:history of the first crusade, entitled De See also:Bello a Christianis contra Barbaros gesto See also:pro Christi Sepulchro et See also:Judaea recuperandis libri tres (See also:Venice, 1432, translated into Italian, 1543, and into See also:French, 1620), which, though itself of little See also:interest, is said to have furnished See also:Tasso with the historic basis for his See also:Jerusalem Delivered. Another See also:work of Accolti's—De Praestantia Virorum sui Aevi—was published at See also:Parma in 1689. His brother See also:Francesco (1418–1483) was also a distinguished jurist, and was the author of Consilia seu responsa (See also:Pisa, 1481); Commentaria super See also:lib. ii. decretalium (See also:Bologna, 1481); Commentaria (See also:Pavia, 1493); de Balneis Puteolanis (1475).

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