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I. The intellect and depravity of the age.

II. Bracciolini as its exponent.

III. Hunter's accurate description of him.

IV. Bracciolini gave way to the impulses of his age.

V. The Claudius, Nero and Tiberius of the Annals

personifications of the Church of Rome in the

fifteenth century.

VI. Schildius and his doubts.

VII. Bracciolini not covetous of martyrdom: communicates his

fears to Niccoli.

VIII. The princes and great men in the Annals the princes and

great men of the XVth century, not of the opening period

of the Christian aera.

IX. Bracciolini, and not Tacitus, a disparager of persons in

high places.