Medieval · c. 1407–1457
Who did Lorenzo Valla influence?
Students and legacy
Renaissance humanist whose philology exposed the Donation of Constantine as a forgery.
Lorenzo Valla influenced Erasmus. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Lorenzo Valla?
Lorenzo Valla was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician and Catholic priest. His historical and philological analysis proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, which undermined the papacy's claim to temporal power. Because of that, he is sometimes seen as a forerunner of the Reformation.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Lorenzo Valla influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Lorenzo Valla.
- Erasmus 1466–1536
Two steps away from Lorenzo Valla
The second generation
- Through Erasmus: Michel de Montaigne
Contemporaries of Lorenzo Valla
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Lorenzo Valla, with no direct line between them.
- Nicholas of Cusa 1401–1464
Lorenzo Valla by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 136
- Wikipedia languages
- 48 — #40 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Lorenzo Valla
- Who influenced Lorenzo Valla?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Lorenzo Valla.
- Who did Lorenzo Valla influence?
- Erasmus.
- When did Lorenzo Valla live?
- c. 1407–1457. The map files Lorenzo Valla under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Lorenzo Valla card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Lorenzo Valla in 48 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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