Lorenzo Valla

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Catholic priest Italian person Renaissance humanist classical scholar humanist philologist rhetorician

Lorenzo Valla was a 15th-century Italian humanist, philologist, and critic best known for his pioneering textual analysis that exposed the Donation of Constantine as a forgery and helped shape Renaissance humanist scholarship.

Aliases (1)

Polydore Vergil ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic priest → Italian person → Renaissance humanist → classical scholar → humanist → philologist → rhetorician →
birthDate	1407 →
birthName	Lorenzo Valla →
birthPlace	Papal States → Rome →
countryOfCitizenship	Papal States →
criticized	Donation of Constantine → scholastic theology →
deathDate	1457 →
deathPlace	Papal States → Rome →
educatedAt	University of Rome (Studium Urbis) →
employer	King Alfonso V of Aragon → Pope Nicholas V → Roman Curia → University of Pavia →
era	Italian Renaissance →
ethnicGroup	Italian →
familyName	Valla →
fieldOfWork	philology → rhetoric → textual criticism → theology →
givenName	Lorenzo →
influenced	Desiderius Erasmus → Renaissance humanism → biblical scholarship →
knownFor	contributions to Latin stylistics → critique of scholasticism → demonstrating the Donation of Constantine is a forgery → pioneering philological methods →
languageOfWorkOrName	Italian → Latin →
movement	Renaissance humanism →
notableWork	Annotationes in Novum Testamentum → De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio → De libero arbitrio → De voluptate → Elegantiae linguae Latinae →
occupation	humanist scholar → philologist → priest → secretary → translator →
positionHeld	apostolic secretary → professor of rhetoric at Pavia →
religion	Catholic Church →

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Lorenzo Valla →	birthName
Tudor chroniclers ("Polydore Vergil") →	notableMember
Renaissance Platonism →	promotedBy
Renaissance Latin →	usedBy