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