Note 59 — Chapter IX

Accolti (on whom cf. Vespasiano da Bisticci, l. c. p. 442 seq.) died in 1466, aged 51; the seals were not delivered to Scala till March 1473, so they must have been put into commission (Manni, l. c. 15). Accolti’s dialogue, De præstantia virorum sui ævi, which, in spite of the many reservations made by the author from personal motives, will deserve regard as the work of a man in high position, was first printed by Ben. Bacchini, Parma, 1689, and later by Galletti in Philippi Villani Liber, p. 97 seq.