Lionardo's _Istoria Fiorentina_, translated into Italian by Donato Acciajuoli, has been published by Le Monnier (Firenze, 1861).

The high praise which Ugo Foscolo bestowed upon the latter seems due to a want of familiarity.
[2] See the preface to the _History of Florence_, by Machiavelli.
[3] Lionardo Bruni, for example, complains in the preface to his history that it is impossible to accommodate the rude names of his personages to a polished style.
[4] Both Poggio and Lionardo began life as Papal secretaries; the latter was not made a citizen of Florence till late in his career.
[5] _Vite di Uomini Illustri_.

Barbera, 1859; p.

425.
The historians of the first half of the sixteenth century are a race apart.

Three generations of pedantic erudition and of courtly or scholastic trifling had separated the men of letters from the men of action, and had made literature a thing of curiosity.