Edited by Colette Nativel, — Geneva, Switzerland: Droz, Izbicki, Thomas M. Edited by J. Izbicki, and Gerald Christianson, — Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, Kristeller, Paul Oskar. By Paul Oskar Kristeller, 19— A good overview of Valla and his work, viewing him both as a typical representative of Italian humanism and as someone possessing a distinctive critical spirit that made an important contribution to the history of philosophy.
Lorch, Maristella de Panizza. Edited by Albert Rabil Jr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Mancini, Girolamo. Vita di Lorenzo Valla. Florence: Sansoni, A lengthy biography of Valla, designed primarily to place his writings in their larger social and intellectual context. Behind this inconsistency, therefore, lies a consistent program of replacing philosophical speculation and theorizing with an approach based on common linguistic practice and common sense.
But arguably it has also philosophical relevance; for throughout the history of philosophy a warning can be heard against abstraction, speculation, and formalization. One need not endorse this cautionary note in order to see that philosophy thrives on the creative tension between, on the one hand, a tendency to abstract, speculate, and formalize, and, on the other, a concern that the object of philosophical analysis should not be lost from sight, that philosophy should not become a game of its own—an abstract and theoretical affair that leaves the world it purports to analyze and explain far behind, using a language that can be understood only by its own practitioners.
Several volumes have now appeared. Life and Works 2. Moral Philosophy 5. Life and Works Valla did not have an easy life.
Opera omnia , Basel ; repr. Repastinatio dialectice et philosophie , G. Zippel ed. Copenhaver and L. Nauta ed. Elegantiae linguae Latinae , S. Trinkaus trans. Cassirer et al. De vero falsoque bono , M. Hieatt and M. Lorch trans. Collatio Novi Testamenti , A. Perosa ed. Hanley trans. Kennedy ed. De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione , W. Setz ed. Leipzig: Teubner, ; C. Coleman trans. Bowersock, Cambridge, Mass. Epistole , O. Besomi and M. Regoliosi ed. Cesarini Martinelli and A.
Correspondence , Brendan Cook ed. Selected Secondary Literature Camporeale, S. Celenza, C. Copenhaver, B. Schmitt, Fois, M. Fubini, R. Vescovini, ed.
Gavinelli, S. Rhetorik als Philosophie. Lorenzo Valla , Munich: Fink. Gray, H. Bluhm ed. Izbicki, T. Kessler, E. Kessler et al. In memoriam Charles B. Schmitt , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 53— Kraye, J. Althoff ed. Laffranchi, M. Mack, P. Renaissance Argument. Mancini, G. Vita di Lorenzo Valla , Florence: Sansoni. Marsico, C. Marsh, D. Monfasani, J. Monfasani, Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy.
Selected Articles , Aldershot: Variorum, Kraye and M. Stone eds. Monfasani, Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy. Mariani Zini ed. Moss, A. Nauta, L. Hankins ed. In Defense of Common Sense. Philosophy and the Language of the People. Paganini, G. Pagliaroli, S. Panizza, L. Perreiah, A. For Valla it was important that words and arguments should not be taken out of context, for this invariably brings with it a change in meaning, and consequently gives rise to philosophical problems where none existed.
He insisted that we should follow the linguistic custom of the ancients rather than construct abstract theories about language and argumentation in general.
But he was no slavish follower of one particular brand of classical Latin, for example, Ciceronian Latin, and often treated classical Latin as a common language in opposition to the technical vocabulary of the scholastics. Skip to main content Skip to table of contents. This service is more advanced with JavaScript available. Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy Edition. Editors: Henrik Lagerlund. Contents Search. Lorenzo Valla.
Authors Authors and affiliations Lodi Nauta. How to cite. This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access. Valla doubted that Emperor Constantine had gifted Pope Sylvester anything at all, suggesting a mistake involving an earlier Pope.
Textual criticism A specialist in Latin translation, Valla made numerous suggestions for improving on Petrarch 's study of Livy. Manuscript works Valla made a contemporary reputation with two works: his dialogue De Voluptate and his treatise De Elegantiis Latinae Linguae.
In this work he contrasted the principles of the Stoics unfavourably with the tenets of Epicurus , showing sympathy for the natural appetites. Version of as De vero bono On the true good. Second version Reconcinnatio totius dialecticae et fundamentorum universalis philosophiae to , printed in the Omnia Opera of , third version Retractatio totius dialectice cum fundamentii universe philosophie , to He also concluded that Valla had reintroduced to the Latin West a type of argument that had fallen into disuse.
It was completely rejected by the Church. It was not formally published until , became popular among Protestants, and an English translation was published for Thomas Cromwell in It was controversial when it appeared, but its arguments carried the day, and humanistic Latin sought to purge itself of the post-Classical. Vallam at the beginning of Collation Novi Testamenti Revised in the s. Printed editions Collected editions, of Valla's works, not quite complete, were published at Basel in and at Venice in , and Elegantiae linguae Latinae was reprinted nearly sixty times between and Opera omnia , Basel ; reprinted with a second volume Turin: Bottega d'Erasmo, Repastinatio dialectice et philosophie , ed.
Zippel, 2 vols. First critical edition of the three versions: Padua: Antenore, Elegantiae linguae Latinae , Venice , edited by S.
De vero falsoque bono , edited by M.
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