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I. The audacity of the forgery accounted for by the mean

opinion Bracciolini had of the intelligence of men.

II. The character and tone of the last Six Books of the Annals

exemplified by what is said of Sabina Poppaea, Sagitta,

Pontia and Messalina.

III. A few errors that must have proceeded from Bracciolini

about the Colophonian Oracle of Apollo Clarius, the

Household Gods of the Germans, Gotarzes, Bardanes and,

above all, Nineveh.

IV. The estimate taken of human nature by the writer of the

Annals the same as that taken by Bracciolini.

V. The general depravity of mankind as shown in the

Annals insisted upon in Bracciolini's Dialogue

"De Infelicitate Principum".