Valla, Lorenzo Philosophers Philosophy

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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• Valla, Lorenzo - A short biography of the Renaissance thinker.
• The Donation of Constantine and the Critique of Lorenzo Valla - Article which reconsiders Valla\\'s dismissal of this document as forged, v but finds his reasoning to have been sound.
• Columbia Encyclopedia: Valla, Lorenzo - Concise entry from the 2001 edition.
• Of the True and the False Good - Excerpts from this 1431 work by Valla.
• Biography.com: Valla, Lorenzo - Concise entry on this 15th-century thinker.
• Charles Nauert on Lorenzo Valla and Critical Method - Short article drawn from this author\\'s 1995 work Humanism and v the Culture of Renaissance Europe.
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Lorenzo Valla - Article by U. Benigni on the teachings of philosophers this Italian philosophers humanist.

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