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Benedetto Accolti

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Benedetto Accolti , c.1415-1466?, Italian humanist and historian. From his history of the First Crusade, Tasso supposedly drew the idea for Jerusalem Delivered. His son Bernardo Accolti, 1465?-1535, was known in his day for extemporaneous poems. Another son, Pietro Accolti, 1455-1532, was a cardinal and drew up (1520) the papal bull against Martin Luther.

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