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c. 1407 – 1457
Lorenzo Valla
Worth knowing
- An Italian scholar who showed in 1440 that the Donation of Constantine, a document used to support papal power, was a forgery. Its Latin belonged to centuries after Constantine.
- He also compared the Latin Bible with the Greek New Testament and noted where the Latin was wrong. Erasmus found his notes and printed them in 1505.
In Scholar’s Dream, Lorenzo Valla has one book
Who else was alive
Lorenzo Valla against everyone else in the game.