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. 1. Biography.com: Valla, Lorenzo - Concise entry on this 15th-century thinker. 2. Columbia Encyclopedia: Valla, Lorenzo - Concise entry from the 2001 edition. 3. 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. 4. Valla, Lorenzo - A short biography of the Renaissance thinker. 5. Catholic Encyclopedia: Lorenzo Valla - Article by U. Benigni on the teachings of this Italian humanist. 6. Charles Nauert on Lorenzo Valla and Critical Method - Short article drawn from this author's 1995 work Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe. 7. Of the True and the False Good - Excerpts from this 1431 work by Valla.

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