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I. The descriptive powers of Bracciolini and Tacitus.

II. The different mode of writing of both.

III. Their different manners of digressing.

IV. Two statements in the Fourth Book of the Annals that could

not have been made by Tacitus.

V. The spirit of the Renaissance shown in both parts of the

Annals.

VI. That both parts proceeded from the same hand shown in the

writer pretending to know the feelings of the characters

in the narrative.

VII. The contradictions in the two parts of the Annals and in

the works of Bracciolini.

VIII. The Second Florence MS. a forgery.

IX. Conclusion.