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Correspondence
Lorenzo Valla
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Hardcover. Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latin letters, though few, afford a direct and unguarded window into the working life of the most passionate, difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 143 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latin letters are fewer than those of many of his contemporaries, since he never collected or consciously preserved them. For that reason they afford a direct and unguarded window into the working life of the most passionate, difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists. They show him as a teacher and secretary, but above all as a writer who continually worked and reworked his major contributions to dialectic and philology, notably his masterpiece on the ... Read more
Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latin letters are fewer than those of many of his contemporaries, since he never collected or consciously preserved them. For that reason they afford a direct and unguarded window into the working life of the most passionate, difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists. They show him as a teacher and secretary, but above all as a writer who continually worked and reworked his major contributions to dialectic and philology, notably his masterpiece on the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
557g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674724679
SKU
V9780674724679
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About Lorenzo Valla
Brendan Cook is Instructor in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida.
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