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I. Improvement in Bracciolini's means after the completion

of the forgery of the last part of the Annals.

II. Discovery of the first six books, and theory about their

forgery.

III. Internal evidence the only proof of their being forged.

IV. Superiority of workmanship a strong proof.

V. Further departure than in the last six books from Tacitus's

method another proof.

VI. The symmetry of the framework a third proof.

VII. Fourth evidence, the close resemblance in the openings of

the two parts.

VIII. The same tone and colouring prove the same authorship.

IX. False statements made about Sejanus and Antonius Natalis

for the purpose of blackening Tiberius and Nero.

X. This spirit of detraction runs through Bracciolini's works.

XI. Other resemblances denoting the same author.

XII. Policy given to every subject another cause to believe both

parts composed by a single writer.

XIII. An absence of the power to depict differences in persons

and things.