Lorenzo Valla

Informationen zum Autor G. W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Klappentext Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, "On Elegance in the Latin Language," which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and "Dialectical Disputations," a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. His most famous work is "On the Donation of Constantine," an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule. It appears here in a new translation with introduction and notes by G. W. Bowersock, based on the critical text of Wolfram Setz (1976). This volume also includes a text and translation of the "Constitutum Constantini," commonly known as the "Donation of Constantine." Zusammenfassung Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.

Product details

• Authors: Lorenzo Valla
• Assisted by: G W Bowersock (Translation), G. W. Bowersock (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2007
• EAN: 9780674025332
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02533-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Italy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy