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Lorenzo Valla

Lorenzo VallaBorn: 1407
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Died: 1-Aug-1457
Location of death: Rome, Italy
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scholar

Nationality: Italy
Executive summary: Debunked the Donation of Constantine

Father: Luca delle Vallea (Papal lawyer)
Mistress: (three illegitimate children)

    Teacher: Rhetoric, University of Pavia

    Heresy (8 counts)

Is the subject of books:
Vita di Lorenzo Valla, 1891, BY: G. Mancini

Author of books:
Declamatio (1517, written 1440, debunking the Donation of Constantine)
Elegantiae Linguae Latinae (1481, textbook)
In Novum Testamentum ex Diversorum Utriusque Linguae Codicum Collatione Adnotationes (1505)





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