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ACCIAJUOLI (1428-1478)  , Italian scholar, was born at Florence in 1428 . He was famous for his learning, especially in Greek and mathematics, and for his services to his native state . Having previously been entrusted with several important embassies, he became Gonfalonier of Florence in 1473 . He died at Milan in 1478, when on his way to Paris to ask the aid of Louis XI. on behalf of the Florentines against Pope Sixtus IV . His body was taken back to Florence, and buried in the church of the Carthusians at the public expense, and his daughters were portioned by his fellow-citizens, the fortune he left being, owing to his probity and disinterestedness, very small . He wrote a Latin translation of some of Plutarch's Lives (Florence, 1478); Commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics and Politics; and the lives of Hannibal, Scipio and Charlemagne . In the work on Aristotle he had the co-operation of his master Argyropulus .