Lorenzo Valla (Lorenzo de Valle, Laurentius Vallensis), 1407-1457. Italian Renaissance humanist scholar, who combated medieval Scholastic teachings and strove to reestablish Stoic and Epicurean thought. He is most remembered today as the classicist who showed that the "Donation of Constantine was a forgery.
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Article by U. Benigni on the teachings of this Italian humanist.
Article which reconsiders Valla's dismissal of this document as forged, but finds his reasoning to have been sound.
A short biography of the Renaissance thinker.
Article which reconsiders Valla's dismissal of this document as forged, but finds his reasoning to have been sound.
A short biography of the Renaissance thinker.
Article by U. Benigni on the teachings of this Italian humanist.
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