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Lorenzo Valla
1407 – 1457 · aged 50
Italian Renaissance humanist (c. 1407–1457)
- Born
- 1407 · Rome
- Died
- 1457 · Rome
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- 1407BornBorn in Rome
- 1457DiedDied in Rome
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- c. 1440Gutenberg’s printing press
- 1453Fall of Constantinople
- 1455 – 1487Wars of the Roses
Biography
Lorenzo Valla (Italian: [loˈrɛntso ˈvalla]; also latinized as Laurentius; c. 1407 – 1 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist scholar, rhetorician, educator, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore impugning and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the papacy. Lorenzo is sometimes seen as a precursor of the Reformation.
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