ACCOLTI, BENEDICT, the younger, grandson of Benedict Accolti the elder, who flourished about the year 1376, was born at Arezzo in 1315. About the year 1450, he was appointed secretary to the republic of Florence, when he was greatly distinguished. He wrote "Four Books concerning the War which the Christians carried on against the infidels to recover Judæa and the Holy Sepulchre." This work was printed at Venice in 1532, and it is the ground-plot of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. He wrote also an account of the "Excellent Personages of his Time," in the form of dialogue. He died in 1466.