Lorenzo Valla (Italian: [loˈrɛntso ˈvalla]; also latinized as Laurentius; c. 1407 – 1 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, [1] rhetorician, educator and scholar. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore attacking and undermining the ...

Lorenzo Valla was an Italian humanist, philosopher, and literary critic who attacked medieval traditions and anticipated views of the Protestant reformers. Valla was the son of a lawyer employed at the papal court.

Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, classical scholar, reformer, and educator. He was a spokesman for the humanist desire to reform language and education.

Lorenzo Valla was an Italian humanist, scholar, and rhetorician of the 15th century, known for his critical approach to texts and his contributions to the study of classical literature.

Valla, Lorenzo 1407–1457 Italian scholar and humanist. Lorenzo Valla, a central figure of the humanist* movement in Italy, focused his attention chiefly on the subjects of religion and language. Valla's writings greatly advanced the study of …

Jun 27, 2017 · Lorenzo Valla (b. 1407–d. 1457) was the great provocateur among the early Italian humanists, a dazzlingly original intellectual who launched frontal assaults on the traditional way of doing things in one field after another, then pilloried the scholars who criticized his efforts.

Lorenzo Valla, (born 1407, Rome, Papal States—died Aug. 1, 1457, Rome), Italian humanist, philosopher, and literary critic. Unable to find a post as a papal secretary, Valla left Rome in 1430 and spent five years traveling in northern Italy.

May 14, 2018 · The textual criticism of the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1407-1457) provided methods and inspiration for the reappraisal of Europe's historical and religious scholarship during the Renaissance.

Lorenzo Valla (1406–1457) did not have an easy life. Equipped with a sharp and polemical mind, an even sharper pen, and a sense of self-importance verging on the pathological, he made many enemies not only among his scholastic contemporaries but also among his humanist colleagues.

Lorenzo Valla, the Italian humanist, is best known as the man who exposed the Donation of Constantine and thus undermined a leading argument for papal sovereignty in the secular realm.