Tacitus and Bracciolini: The Annals Forged in the XVth Century

The theory broached in this book involves a charge of the grossest fraud against a most distinguished man who rose to high posts in public affairs and won imperishable fame in letters. There being blots on his moral character it would be censurable to fasten upon his memory this new imputation of dishonesty were it not substantiated by irresistible evidence.