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On the Donation of Constantine

By: Lorenzo Valla

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On the Donation of Constantine

By: Lorenzo Valla

Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.

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Harvard University Press

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0674030893

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9780674030893

Dialectical Disputations

By: Lorenzo Valla

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Dialectical Disputations

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Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) ranks among the greatest scholars and thinkers of the Renaissance. He secured lasting fame for his brilliant critical skills, most famously in his exposure of the “Donation of Constantine,” the forged document upon which the papacy based claims to political power. Lesser known in the English-speaking world is Valla’s work in the philosophy of language—the basis of his reputation as the greatest philosopher of the humanist movement. Dialectical Disputations, translated here for the first time into any modern language, is his principal contribution to the philosophy of language and logic. With this savage attack on the scholastic tradition of Aristotelian logic, Valla aimed to supersede it with a new logic based on the actual historical usage of classical Latin and on a commonsense approach to semantics and argument. Valla provides a logic that could be used by lawyers, preachers, statesmen, and others who needed to succeed in public debate—one that was stylistically correct and rhetorically elegant, and thus could dispense with the technical language of the scholastics, a “tribe of Peripatetics, perverters of natural meanings.” Valla’s reformed dialectic became a milestone in the development of humanist logic and contains startling anticipations of modern theories of semantics and language. Volume 1 contains Book I, in which Valla refutes Aristotle’s logical works on the categories, transcendentals, and predicables, with excursions into natural and moral philosophy and theology.

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0674055764

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9780674055766

On the Donation of Constantine

By: Lorenzo Valla

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Equity in Early Modern Legal Scholarship

By: Lorenzo Maniscalco

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Equity in Early Modern Legal Scholarship

By: Lorenzo Maniscalco

Equity in Early Modern Legal Scholarship offers a comprehensive account of the development of equity by legal writers in the early modern period, unearthing a time of lively debate about its nature and function.

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BRILL

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9004404813

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9789004404816

Dialectical Disputations

By: Lorenzo Valla

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Dialectical Disputations

By: Lorenzo Valla

Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) ranks among the greatest scholars and thinkers of the Renaissance. He secured lasting fame for his brilliant critical skills, most famously in his exposure of the “Donation of Constantine,” the forged document upon which the papacy based claims to political power. Lesser known in the English-speaking world is Valla’s work in the philosophy of language—the basis of his reputation as the greatest philosopher of the humanist movement. Dialectical Disputations, translated here for the first time into any modern language, is his principal contribution to the philosophy of language and logic. With this savage attack on the scholastic tradition of Aristotelian logic, Valla aimed to supersede it with a new logic based on the actual historical usage of classical Latin and on a commonsense approach to semantics and argument. Valla provides a logic that could be used by lawyers, preachers, statesmen, and others who needed to succeed in public debate—one that was stylistically correct and rhetorically elegant, and thus could dispense with the technical language of the scholastics, a “tribe of Peripatetics, perverters of natural meanings.” Valla’s reformed dialectic became a milestone in the development of humanist logic and contains startling anticipations of modern theories of semantics and language. Volume 2 contains Books II–III, in which Valla refutes Aristotle’s logical works on propositions, topics, and the syllogistic.

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0674061403

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Book's by Lorenzo Valla

On the Donation of Constantine

On the Donation of Constantine

Dialectical Disputations

Dialectical Disputations

On the Donation of Constantine

On the Donation of Constantine

Equity in Early Modern Legal Scholarship

Equity in Early Modern Legal Scholarship

Dialectical Disputations

Dialectical Disputations

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