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    Lorenzo Valla (Italian: [loˈrɛntso ˈvalla]; also Latinized as Laurentius; c. 1407 – 1 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator...
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  • "Dialogue on Free Will") is one in a series of dialogues written by Lorenzo Valla. The work discusses his views on the concept of free will as it pertains...
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    Constantine was included in the 9th-century Pseudo-Isidorean decretals. Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Catholic priest and Renaissance humanist, is credited with...
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  • Kristin Hille Valla, Norwegian politician for the Centre Party Lorenzo Valla (1406–1457), Italian Renaissance era humanist Marie-Laure Valla, French set...
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  • mathematician Lorenzo Ruiz (1594–1637), first Filipino saint Lorenzo Snow (1814–1901), American LDS apostle and church president Lorenzo Valla (c. 1407–1457)...
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    the Council of Florence, from 1439 to 1442. In his quarrel against Lorenzo Valla—an expert at philological analysis of ancient texts with a hot temperament...
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    of his views, and thus he praised people like Girolamo Savonarola, Lorenzo Valla, Wessel Gansfort and other groups as prefiguring some of his views....
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    was 'iron in its harshness and in its sterility of goodness', while Lorenzo Valla gave it the similar name "Age of Lead and Iron".: 2  c. 950: The beginning...
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  • Greek text of Quandt. Ricciardelli, Gabriella, Inni Orfici, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, 2000. ISBN 978-8-804-47661-0. Athanassakis, Apostolos N., and Benjamin...
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  • Claudius of Turin Gottschalk of Orbais Berengar of Tours Peter Waldo Lorenzo Valla Wessel Gansfort Girolamo Savonarola Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples John Wycliffe...
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  • the highest human good. At the transition to the early modern period, Lorenzo Valla (c. 1406–1457) synthesized Epicurean hedonism with Christian ethics...
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    writing; – second indication of forgery. Examples are: The exposure by Lorenzo Valla in 1440 of the so-called Donation of Constantine, a decree purportedly...
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  • 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...
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  • Antichrist, which was influenced by the events of his life, but also by Lorenzo Valla. The view that the papacy was the Antichrist was held by radical followers...
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    Gabriel Nuchelmans to Lorenzo Valla in the 15th century, in later versions of his logic text traditionally called Dialectica. Valla claimed that it was...
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    described by Michael R. Allen as the heir to the oratorical vision of Lorenzo Valla, and a better nominalist. He was born in Brescello. He was professor...
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    Contemporary Greek and Latin Writers] (in Italian). Vol. I. Verona: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. "Fall of Constantinople". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the...
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    Mongolia (Itinerarium), a cura di Paolo Chiesa, Milano, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Mondadori, 2011. Steinkraus, Keith H. (1995). Handbook of Indigenous...
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    in 2008 Volume 3 available in 2009 On The Donation of Constantine, Lorenzo Valla, ed. and trans. G. W. Bowersock, 2007 Paperback available in 2008 Commentaries...
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    ordered by his son Alfonso to Pere Oller in 1417. The Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla wrote an official biography of Ferdinand, Historiarum Ferdinandi regis...
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    Greek scholars after the fall of Constantinople. The pope also employed Lorenzo Valla to translate Greek histories, pagan as well as Christian, into Latin...
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  • Apostles. This tradition was also shown to be historically untenable by Lorenzo Valla. The Roman Church does not state that text dates back to the Apostles...
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  • notable application of diplomatics was by Nicolas of Cusa, in 1433, and Lorenzo Valla, in 1440, who determined, independently, that the Donation of Constantine...
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    Langobardorum (Storia dei Longobardi, cura e commento di Lidia Capo, Lorenzo Valla/Mondadori, Milan 1992). Lidia Capo. Comment to Deacon, Paul (1992)....
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    Contemporary Greek and Latin Writers] (in Italian). Vol. I. Verona: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. Rutheniae, Isidorus (6 July 1453). "Epistola reverendissimi patris...
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    Towards the 15th century, prominent teachers such as Baldo degli Ubaldi, Lorenzo Valla, Giasone del Maino taught students in the fields of law, philosophy...
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  • Catholic faith. Catholic humanist scholars of the Renaissance such as Lorenzo Valla and Erasmus emphasized the role of philology and genre as the foundation...
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    texts. In a triumph of early modern hermeneutics, the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla proved in 1440 that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery. This...
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  • Lorenzo Valla/Mondadori, Milan 1992) Lidia Capo. Comment to Paul Deacon (1992). Lidia Capo (ed.). Storia dei Longobardi (in Italian). Milan: Lorenzo Valla/Mondadori...
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  • humanist Lorenzo Valla delivered the annual encomium in honor of the "angelic doctor." The Dominicans of the Minerva studium generale pressed Valla not only...
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