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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 ...
Levine, Joseph M. "Reginald Pecock and Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine." Studies in the Renaissance (1973): 118–143. in JSTOR; McCabe, Joseph (1939). A History Of The Popes. Watts & Co. Nauta, Lodi (2009). In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla's Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
The Collation of the New Testament (Latin: Collatio Novi Testamenti) is a 1447 work composed by the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla (c. 1407 –1457). The Collation of the New Testament compares four Latin texts of Jerome's fourth-century Vulgate Bible with four Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. [1]
Lorenzo Valla was an Italian humanist who lived during the 15th century. Valla was born in Rome in 1406. Valla's family had close ties to the papal curia, putting him in close contact with many established Church figures at an early age. Many of these figures were also thinkers who abided by humanist ideologies.
Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla further proved its falsity in 1440 by showing that its Latin language did not correspond to that of the 4th century. The "Donation" purports to acknowledge the primacy of Rome over Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Constantinople, even though the last of these had not even been founded at the time of the claimed ...
In 1433 he identified the Donation of Constantine as a fake, confirmed by Lorenzo Valla a few years later, and revealed the forgery of the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals. He made friends with the Austrian astronomer Georg von Peuerbach and advocated a reform of the Julian calendar and the Easter computus , which, however, was not realized until the ...
In 1440, Lorenzo Valla demonstrated that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery on the basis of linguistic, legal, historical, and political arguments. The Protestant Reformation saw an increase in efforts to plainly interpret the text of the Bible without the overriding lenses of tradition.
Bust of Constantine. The Acts of Sylvester (Latin: Actus Silvestri) are a series of legendary tales about the fourth-century bishop of Rome, Sylvester I.Sylvester was the bishop of Rome at the critical point in European history when Constantine the Great became the first Christian emperor.