Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century

Chapter 6

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BRACCIOLINI IN ROME.

I. His genius and the greatness of his age. II. His qualifications. III. His early career. IV. The character of Niccolo Niccoli, who abetted him in the forgery V. Bracciolini's descriptive writing of the Burning of Jerome of Prague compared with the descriptive writing of the sham sea fight in the Twelfth Book of the Annals.