Lorenzo Valla

Lorenzo (atau Laurentius) Valla (; 1407 – 1 Agustus 1457) adalah seorang humanis, retorikawan, dan pengajar Italia. Ia dikenal karena analisis tekstualnya yang menyatakan bahwa Donasi Konstantinus adalah sebuah pemalsuan.

Kehidupan awal 

Valla lahir di Roma. Keluarganya berasal dari Piacenza; ayahnya, Luciave della Valla, adalah seorang pengacara yang bekerja di dewan kepausan.

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Bacaan tambahan 
For detailed accounts of Valla's life and work see:
 G. Voigt, Die Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums (1880–81);
 John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy (1897–99);
 G. Mancini, Vita di Lorenzo Valla (Florence, 1891);
 M. von Wolff, Lorenzo Valla (Leipzig, 1893);
 Jakob Burckhardt, Kultur der Renaissance (1860);
 J. Vahlen, Laurentius Valla (Berlin, 1870); L Pastor, Geschichte der Päpste, Band ii. English trans. by FI Antrobus (1892);
 The article in Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopädie, Band xx. (Leipzig, 1908).
 John Edwin Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. ii. (1908), pp. 66‑70.
 Lisa Jardine, "Lorenzo Valla and the Intellectual Origins of Humanist Dialectic," Journal of the History of Philosophy 15 (1977): 143-64.
 Maristella de Panizza Lorch, A defense of life: Lorenzo Valla's theory of pleasure., Humanistische Bibliothek 1/36, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1985, ISBN 978-3-7705-2193-7
 Peter Mack, Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic, Leiden ; New York: E.J. Brill, 1993.
 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.
 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.
 Christopher S. Celenza, "Lorenzo Valla and the Traditions and Transmissions of Philosophy,” Journal of the History of Ideas 66 (2005): 483-506.
 Lodi Nauta, In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla's Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Pranala luar 
 
 Lorenzo Valla, Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine
 Lorenzo Valla: Elegantiarum Laurentii Vallae. Naples (c. 1473). At Somni
 Tomb of Lorenzo Valla

Penulis dari Roma