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Lorenzo Valla (Lorenzo de Valle, Laurentius Vallensis), 1407-1457. Italian Renaissance humanist scholar, who combated medieval Scholastic teachings and strove to reestablish Stoic and Epicurean thought. He is most remembered today as the classicist who showed that the "Donation of Constantine was a forgery.

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Catholic Encyclopedia: Lorenzo Valla Article by U. Benigni on the teachings of this Italian humanist. www.newadvent.org/cathen/15257a.htm

Biography.com: Valla, Lorenzo Concise entry on this 15th-century thinker. search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=11522

The Donation of Constantine and the Critique of Lorenzo Valla Article which reconsiders Valla's dismissal of this document as forged, but finds his reasoning to have been sound. www.tertullian.org/rpearse/donation/donation_of_constantine.htm

Valla, Lorenzo A short biography of the Renaissance thinker. members.tripod.com/EsotericTexts07/Valla.bio.htm

Columbia Encyclopedia: Valla, Lorenzo Concise entry from the 2001 edition. www.bartleby.com/65/va/Valla-Lo.html