Книга: Lorenzo Valla «On the Donation of Constantine»
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Lorenzo Valla
Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1407 –
In 1431 he entered the priesthood, and after trying in vain to secure a position as apostolic secretary, he went to Piacenza, whence he proceeded to
Latin stylistics
By this time Valla had won a high reputation for two works: his dialogue "De Voluptate", and his treatise "De Elegantiis Latinae Linguae". In "De Voluptate" ("On Pleasure"), he contrasted the principles of the
"De Elegantiis" was no less original, although in a different sphere of thought. This work subjected the forms of Latin
Exposing historical hoaxes
Valla's originality, critical acumen, and knowledge of classical Latin style were put to good use in an essay he wrote between 1439 and 1440, "De falso credita et ementita Constantini Donatione declamatio". In this he demonstrated that the document known as the "Constitutum Constantini" (or "donatio Constantini" as he refers to it in his writings), or the "
Valla was motivated to reveal the "Donation of Constantine" as a fraud by his employer of the time, Alfonso of Aragon, who was involved in a territorial conflict with the
The essay began circulating in 1440, but was heavily rejected by the Church. It was not formally published until 1517. It became popular among Protestants. An English translation was published for
ubsequent career
From Naples, Valla continued his
Biographies and critical esteem
All the older biographical notices of Valla are loaded with long accounts of his many literary and theological disputes, the most famous of which was the one with Poggio, which took place after his settlement in Rome. It is almost impossible to form a just estimate of Valla's private life and character owing to the clouds of dust which were stirred up by this and other controversies, in which the most virulent and
Works
Collected, but not quite complete, editions of Valla's works were published at Basel in 1540 and at Venice in 1592, and "De Elegantiis" was reprinted nearly sixty times between 1471 and 1536. For detailed accounts of Valla's life and work see G Voigt, "Die Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums" (1880-81); JA Symonds, "Renaissance in Italy" (1897-99); G Mancini, "Vita di Lorenzo Valla" (Florence, 1891); M. von Wolff, "Lorenzo Valla" (Leipzig, 1893);
References
*1911|article=Lorenzo Valla|url=http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Lorenzo_Valla
Further reading
*Lodi Nauta, "In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla's Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy", Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2009.
*Peter Mack, "Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic", Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1993.
*Melissa Meriam Bullard, "The Renaissance Project of Knowing: Lorenzo Valla and Salvatore Camporeale's Contributions to the Querelle Between Rhetoric and Philosophy," "Journal of the History of Ideas" 66.4 (2005): 477-81.
*Brian P Copenhaver, "Valla Our Contemporary: Philosophy and Philology," "Journal of the History of Ideas" 66.4 (2005): 507-25.
*Matthew DeCoursey, "Continental European Rhetoricians, 1400-1600, and Their Influence in Renaissance England," "British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660, First Series", DLB 236, Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 309-343.
*Lisa Jardine, "Lorenzo Valla and the Intellectual Origins of Humanist Dialectic," "Journal of the History of Philosophy" 15 (1977): 143-64.
External links
* [http://history.hanover.edu/texts/vallatc.html Lorenzo Valla, Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine]
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/churches/Lateran/interior/Lorenzo_Valla.html Tomb of Lorenzo Valla]
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