Lorenzo Valla
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A 2011 (Nov. 18) conference for "Histoire de l'écrit à Paris au Moyen Âge" seminary, Paris (Cnrs-Irht), coorganized with Université Paris - I
En su diálogo titulado De vero bono, Lorenzo Valla cuestiona la admiración de los principios morales paganos por parte de sus contemporáneos. Con este propósito presenta un orador epicúreo que defiende la voluptas en contraposición al... more
The period known as the Italian Renaissance witnessed a rebirth of Greek learning and, along with it, a renewed impetus to translate the two epic poems, the Iliad and Odyssey, attributed to Homer in antiquity. During the course of one... more
Die Arbeit beschreibt die humanistische Reform des 'Triviums', d.h. der grammatischen, dialektischen (d.h. logisch-argumentativen) und rhetorischen Ausbildung, wie sie sich in dem Zeitraum von 1480 bis 1540 an Schulen und Universitäten... more
Η "Κριτική Κειμένου" είναι ο κλάδος της φιλολογικής επιστήμης που μελετά τα κείμενα της αρχαιοελληνικής και λατινικής γραμματείας υπό ένα συγκεκριμένο πρίσμα και με έναν σαφώς προσδιορισμένο στόχο: την αναγωγή των κειμένων αυτών στην... more
La presente edizione, la prima giustificata da un’ipotesi complessiva e condotta con criteri scientifici, si basa sulla collazione completa dei testimoni, i cui rapporti sono discussi nella Premessa generale e nelle premesse alle singole... more
In 1452 Lorenzo Valla finished what became the standard translation of Thucydides for the next several hundred years. Identifying the central themes taken up by Valla in the dedicatory letter to Pope Nicholas V, this article will discuss... more
This paper considers the relationship between truth and fiction as it is manifested, through the process of storytelling, within the gallery's aesthetic experience. Storytelling effectively integrates both truth and fiction in order to... more
Tesis doctoral defendida en la Universidad de Buenos Aires en el 2015 y publicada digitalmente por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras en el 2017.
The aim of the program is to take stock of Hungarian documents of studia humanitatis with 1526 as a milestone. The census intends to register predominantly the use of (school)books in Hungary in teaching grammar, rhetoric, poetry,... more
(Congiure e conflitti. L’affermazione della signoria pontificia su Roma nel Rinascimento: politica, economia e cultura. a cura di M. Chiabò - M. Gargano - A. Modigliani - P. Osmond. Roma, 2014. 55-68).
In 1440, the Renaissance scholar Lorenzo Valla completed a detailed study of the Donation of Constantine, widely recognized as both a land-mark in the field of philology and a significant moment in the history of the Catholic Church.... more
Il problema della verità comincia quando non c’è più la garanzia della Verità. Tra parola, silenzio e verità si gioca una partita triangolare, una partita che in Occidente comincia, o ricomincia, con la modernità – perché l’Occidente è la... more
Il seminario, organizzato dal Centro Europeo di Studi su Umanesimo e Rinascimento Aragonese (CESURA), si terrà sulla piattaforma Google Meet il 20 gennaio 2022 alle ore 15.30: https://meet.google.com/yhi-tkts-gjk
[ITA] Le riflessioni sulla scrittura della storia elaborate alla corte aragonese di Napoli giunsero, alla fine del XV secolo, alla definizione di precise leggi retoriche con l’Actius di Giovanni Pontano, ma presero avvio nel 1447, con una... more
In meiner Masterarbeit, 2016 eingereicht am Institut für Christliche Philosophie der Universität Innsbruck, beschäftige ich mit Fragen der Sprachphilosophie und der Philosophie des Geistes (insbesondere mit dem Problem der... more
Paper published in: Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 94 (2015), pp. 94-128
El propósito de este trabajo es doble. En primer lugar, presenta algunos de los debates actuales en los estudios del humanismo renacentista a partir de las propuestas de Ernesto Grassi, principalmente en su Rhetoric as Philosophy. The... more
This is the Introduction to my book on Giovanni Pontano. It discusses how Pontano connects to Aristotelianism, and why I think it is worthwhile to study his virtue ethics, and Renaissance virtue ethics in general. You will also find the... more
This paper is devoted to the first period of Pomponio's career, from the 1450s to 1468, which is relatively little known. A fresh examination of the subscription in his copy of Lucretius produces new evidence. He is shown to have been... more
The analysis is directed at grammars used in 15th century Hungary. In this period, there were marked changes in the area of available grammars: besides the antique–late antique grammars (Donatus and Priscian) and then medieval grammars... more
Il "De papatu Romano Antichristo" di Alberico Gentili (San Ginesio 1552 – Londra 1608) è conservato nella Bodleian Library di Oxford (D’Orville 607, ff. 1r-95v) e rappresenta il più noto degli inediti del giurista di San Ginesio al quale,... more
The aim of the book is to take stock of Hungarian documents of studia humanitatis, with 1526 as a milestone. The census intends to register predominantly the use of (school)books in Hungary in teaching grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history,... more
This article analyses Valla’s historiographical stance in the light of his dialectical assumptions about possibility, verisimilitude, and truth. I argue that, at variance with most humanists, Valla believed that historical truth should... more
This article analyses the influence of Lorenzo Valla’s philosophy on his own grammatical conceptions. In particular, I argue that, in spite of the anti-normative claims of the Elegantiae, Valla’s philosophical assumptions led him to adopt... more