Valla, Lorenzo V Philosophers

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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• - Concise entry on this 15th-century thinker.
  
• - Article by U. Benigni on the teachings of this Italian humanist.
  
• - Concise entry from the 2001 edition.
  
• - 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.
  
  

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