Christianity, Latinity, and Culture - Two Studies on Lorenzo Valla

This book presents, for the first time in English, two studies by Salvatore I. Camporeale (1928-2002) on the fifteenth-century thinker Lorenzo Valla. Camporeale's work offers new perspectives on Valla, in terms of both content and method.

About the author

Patrick Baker (FAAR '13), Ph.D. (2009) in History, Harvard University, is a Senior Research Associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research interests include Renaissance humanism, historiography, and the reception of the classical tradition.

Christopher S. Celenza (FAAR 94), Charles Homer Haskins Professor at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the American Academy in Rome (2010-14), has research interests that include intellectual history, the history of philosophy, and Neo-Latin literature.

Product details

• Authors: Salvatore I Camporeale, Salvatore I. Camporeale
• Assisted by: Patrick Baker (Editor), Christopher S Celenza (Editor), Christopher S. Celenza (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2013
• EAN: 9789004261969
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26196-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Chri
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day