Christianity, Latinity, and Culture

Two Studies on Lorenzo Valla
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26196-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 172, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

The work of Lorenzo Valla (1406-57) has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, as have new critical editions of his texts. One of the most interesting interpreters of Valla, Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P., had a following among scholars who read Italian, but very little of his work saw the light in English before his death in 2002. This book presents two of Camporeale’s studies on Valla in English, which examine in detail two of Valla’s works: his treatise on the Donation of Constantine (undoubtedly the work for which Valla is best known) and his Encomium of Saint Thomas Aquinas, delivered publicly in the last year of Valla’s life and, in Camporeale’s reading, summing up Valla’s multi-faceted thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Camporeale, Salvatore I

Baker, Patrick

Celenza, Christopher S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Baker (FAAR '13), Ph.D. (2009) in History, Harvard University, is a Senior Research Associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research interests include Renaissance humanism, historiography, and the reception of the classical tradition.

Christopher S. Celenza (FAAR 94), Charles Homer Haskins Professor at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the American Academy in Rome (2010-14), has research interests that include intellectual history, the history of philosophy, and Neo-Latin literature.