ACCOLTI, BERNARDO. — Poet, better known by the nickname Unico aretino, b. at Arezzo on 11 September 1458 and d. in Rome on 1 March 1535. He established close relations with the courts of Mantua and Urbino, and enjoyed the favor of Leo X and Clement VII. His lyric poetry,
oscillating between pure Petrarchism and pre-sixteenth-century preciosities, was excellently studied by D'Ancona.
Fresher is one of his comedies, Virginia, based on a Boccaccian plot and resolved in the tone of a sacred representation.
His writings, Opera nova del preclarissimo messer B. aretino, were published in Florence, perhaps in 1513, and reprinted in Venice in 1519.
BIBL.: E. Guarnera, B.A., Palermo 1901; F. Cavagni, L'Unice Aretino (B. A.) e la corte dei duchi di Urbino, Arezzo 1906; I. Corsi, Un fenomeno della rinascenza, in Rivista di Roma, 3 (1915), fasc. 3-5.
R. G. Brignetti