But in idiomatic purity of language he is superior.
Varchi had been spoiled by academic habits of composition.

His language is diffuse and lumbering.

He lacks the vivacity of epigram, selection, and pointed phrase.

But his Storia Fiorentina remains the most valuable repertory of information we possess about the later vicissitudes of the republic, and the charm of detail compensates for the lack of style.
Nerli is altogether a less interesting writer than those that have been mentioned; yet some of the particulars which he relates, about Savonarola's reform of manners, for example, and the literary gatherings in the Rucellai gardens, are such as we find nowhere else.
[1] Book ii.cap.

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[2] See lib.ii.cap.