Lorenzo Valla: On the Donation of Constantine (I Tatti Renaissance Library)

by Lorenzo Valla (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $31.30

  Talks about Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), one of the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, On Elegance in the Latin Language , which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and Dialectical Disputations , a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $37.85

  Uses philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.