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Tables of Contents for Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
viii
Abbreviations
xiii
Arezzo in the early Renaissance
1
21
Political and economic life
1
11
Educational and intellectual traditions
12
10
The Accolti family
22
19
Benedetto Accolti's early life and works
41
18
Accolti in Florence and Arezzo in the 1440s and early 1450s
59
26
Accolti's election as chancellor of Florence
85
30
The Florentine chancellorship
115
23
The Florentine chancery under Accolti
138
46
Accolti's Dialogus
184
40
Accolti's history of the first crusade and the Turkish menace
224
62
The date of Accolti's history
225
1
Accolti's history and humanist literature on the crusade, the Near East and Eastern Europe
226
15
Florence and the crusade, 1453-64
241
18
Accolti's history and Florentine crusading diplomacy
259
11
Accolti and crusading traditions in Florence and Tuscany
270
7
Accolti, the crusade and the Florentine regime
277
9
Accolti and Renaissance historiography
286
44
Accolti's historical thought
286
12
Historical method in Accolti's De bello
298
19
Accolti and Renaissance medievalism
317
13
Epilogue
330
8
Appendix I Letters of Benedetto Accolti
338
1
Appendix II Accolti's work as a palace official during his chancellorship
339
1
Appendix III Pratica concerned with increasing Accolti's salary as chancellor
340
2
Appendix IV Accolti and the incident of Ponzano, July-August 1463
342
5
Select bibliography
347
6
Index
353