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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Bernardo Accolti (c. 1465–c. 1535)

Accolti, Bernardo (äk-kōl’tē). An Italian poet (c. 1465–c. 1535). Greatly admired by his contemporaries, especially for his brilliant gift as an improviser, he was styled “The Only (one) of Arezzo” (L’Unico Aretino). Leo X. esteemed him highly, and made him apostolic secretary, cardinal, and papal legate at Ancona. He drew up the Papal Bull against Luther (1520).