Correspondence

by Lorenzo Valla

Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latin letters are fewer than those of many of his contemporaries, since he never collected or consciously preserved them. For that reason they afford a direct and unguarded window into the working life of the most passionate, difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists. They show...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724674
• ISBN13: 9780674724679
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"