Christianity, latinity, and culture : : two studies on Lorenzo Valla / / by Salvatore I. Camporeale ; translated by Patrick Baker ; edited by Patrick Baker, Christopher S. Celenza ; with Lorenzo Valla' Encomium of Saint Thomas / edited and translated by Patrick Baker.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Christian traditions, Volume 172
• Author: Camporeale, Salvatore I.
• TeilnehmendeR: Baker, Patrick.; Celenza, Christopher S., 1967-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2013.; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 172.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The work of Lorenzo Valla (1406-57) has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, as have new critical editions of his texts. One of the most interesting interpreters of Valla, Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P., had a following among scholars who read Italian, but very little of his work saw the light in English before his death in 2002. This book presents two of Camporeale’s studies on Valla in English, which examine in detail two of Valla’s works: his treatise on the Donation of Constantine (undoubtedly the work for which Valla is best known) and his Encomium of Saint Thomas Aquinas, delivered publicly in the last year of Valla’s life and, in Camporeale’s reading, summing up Valla’s multi-faceted thought.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Salvatore Camporeale and Lorenzo Valla / Christopher S. Celenza -- Lorenzo Valla and the De falso credita donatione: Rhetoric, Freedom, and Ecclesiology in the Fifteenth Century -- Lorenzo Valla between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Encomium of St. Thomas – 1457 -- Lorenzo Valla, Encomium of St. Thomas Aquinas / Patrick Baker -- Bibliography -- Index.