Benedetto Accolti (1415–1466) was an Italian jurist and historian. Events Friedrich I Hohenzollern (b. ... Events Chimú Empire conquered by troops of the Inca End of term for Regent of Sweden Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna. ... A jurist is a professional who studies, develops, applies or otherwise deals with the law. ... An historian is someone who writes history, a written accounting of the past. ...

He was born at Arezzo, in Tuscany, of a noble family, several members of which were distinguished like himself for their attainments in law. Arezzo (Latin Arretium) is an old city in central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. ... Tuscany (Italian: ) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. ... Equality and the balancing of interests under law is symbolised by a blindfold and weighing scales For other senses of this word, see Law (disambiguation). ...

He was for some time professor of jurisprudence in the University of Florence, and on the death of the celebrated Poggio Bracciolini, in 1459, became chancellor of the Florentine republic. He was given numerous ecclesiastical honors; Leo X gave him bishopric of Cadiz, and Adrian VI that of Cremona; and the archbishopric of Ravenna. Clement VII created him a cardinal. At the request of the latter pontiff, he wrote a treatise to assert the right of the pope to the kingdom of Naples. Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. ... The University of Florence (Università degli Studi di Firenze, UNIFI) is one of the largest and oldest universities in Italy. ... This article or section should be merged with Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini Gianfrancesco (or Giovanni Francesco) Poggio Bracciolini (February 11, 1380 - October 10, 1459) was one of the most important Italian Renaissance humanists. ... Events September 23 - Battle of Blore Heath. ... The Chancellor of Florence held the most important position in the bureaucracy of the Florentine Republic but did not hold any political power. ... Pope Leo X Leo X, né Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici (December 11, 1475 - December 1, 1521), was the only pope who has bestowed his own name upon his age, and one of the few whose original extraction has corresponded in some measure with the splendour of the pontifical dignity. ... This article is about the Spanish city. ... The house where Adrian VI was born Adrian VI (also known as Hadrian VI or Adriano VI), born Adrian dEdel (March 2, 1459 - September 14, 1523), pope from 1522 to 1523, was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and studied under the Brethren of the Common Life either at Zwolle... Cremona is a city in Northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po river in the middle of the Pianura padana (Po valley). ... Ravenna is a city and commune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ... For the antipope (1378-1394) see Antipope Clement VII. Pope Clement VII Clement VII, né Giulio di Giuliano de Medici (1478 – September 25, 1534) was pope from 1523 to 1534. ...

Accolti was so great a master of the Latin language, that he was called the 'Cicero' of his age. His memory was uncommonly retentive. Having, one day, heard a speech delivered by an ambassador from the king of Portugal to the senate of Florence, he afterwards repeated it, word for word. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Cicero at about age 60, from an ancient marble bust Marcus Tullius Cicero (IPA: ; Latin pronunciation:  ; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and philosopher of Ancient Rome. ...

In conjunction with his brother Leonardo, he wrote in Latin a history of the first crusade, entitled De Bello a Christianis contra Barbaros gesto pro Christi Sepulchro et Judaea recuperandis libri tres (Venice, 1432; Italian edition, 1543; French, 1620), or "On the War carried on by the Christians against the Barbarians, for the Recovery of Christ's Sepulchre, and of Judea", which is said to have furnished Tasso with the historic basis for his Jerusalem Delivered. Another work of Accolti's, De Praestantia Virorum sui Arretii, was published at Parma in 1689; in this work, which passed through many editions, the author compares the characters of the moderns to the ancients, in order to prove that the former are in no respect inferior to the latter. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Combatants Christendom, Catholicism West European Christians Turkish people Muslims/Arabs The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of liberating the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslims, and freeing the Eastern Christians from Muslim rule. ... Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered; 1575), in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. ... Country Italy Region Emilia-Romagna Province Parma (PR) Mayor Elvio Ubaldi (since May 28, 2002) Elevation 55 m Area 260 km² Population  - Total (as of December 31, 2004) 175,789  - Density 676/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Parmigiani (Parmensi are called the provinces inhabitants) Dialing code...

His brother Francesco (c. 1416–1488) 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). Francesco Accolti (c. ...

His son Pietro became a cardinal, while younger son Bernardo was a notable poet. Pietro Accolti (15 March 1455 - 11 December 1532), known as the cardinal of Ancona, was the son of Benedetto Accolti. ... Bernardo Accolti (1465 - 1536) was an Italian poet. ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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See also

• Accolti, other members of the family