Lorenzo Valla (M / Italy, 1405-1457), scholar

Lorenzo Valla (1405-1457) was an Italian scholar. He was the first significant Biblical scholar of the Renaissance. Against Poggio Bracciolini, he argued that the biblical texts should be subjected to the same philological criticism as the great classics of antiquity. He set himself the task of comparing the Vulgate to the Greek text of the New Testament. Valla's work enjoyed minimum circulation until Erasmus saw a copy of the Annotationes in the Abbey of Parc near Leuven and published it in 1505.

Works

Books

• Antidota in Pogium (1452-53 Valla), ms.

• Collatio Novi Testamenti (1453 Valla), ms.

• Adnotationes in Novum Testamentum (1457 Valla), ms.
  • In Novum Testamentum annotationes (New Testament Notes / 1505 @1450s. Valla / Erasmus), book

References

• Erika Rummel, ed., Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus (Leuven: Brill, 2008)

External links

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