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The Resource Christianity, latinity, and culture : two studies on Lorenzo Valla, by Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P. ; translated by Patrick Baker ; edited by Patrick Baker, Christopher S. Celenza ; with Lorenzo Valla's Encomium of Saint Thomas / edited and translated by Patrick Baker

Christianity, latinity, and culture : two studies on Lorenzo Valla, by Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P. ; translated by Patrick Baker ; edited by Patrick Baker, Christopher S. Celenza ; with Lorenzo Valla's Encomium of Saint Thomas / edited and translated by Patrick Baker

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Christianity, latinity, and culture : two studies on Lorenzo Valla
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Christianity, latinity, and culture
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two studies on Lorenzo Valla
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by Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P. ; translated by Patrick Baker ; edited by Patrick Baker, Christopher S. Celenza ; with Lorenzo Valla's Encomium of Saint Thomas / edited and translated by Patrick Baker
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  • eng
  • ita
  • eng
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The work of Lorenzo Valla (1406-57) has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, as have new critical editions of his texts. One of the most interesting interpreters of Valla, Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P., had a following among scholars who read Italian, but very little of his work saw the light in English before his death in 2002. This book presents two of Camporeale's studies on Valla in English, which examine in detail two of Valla's works: his treatise on the Donation of Constantine (undoubtedly the work for which Valla is best known) and his Encomium of Saint Thomas Aquinas, delivered publicly in the last year of Valla's life and, in Camporeale's reading, summing up Valla's multi-faceted thought --
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Camporeale, Salvatore I
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282
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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  • 1407-1457
  • 1407-1457
  • 1967-
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  • Baker, Patrick
  • Valla, Lorenzo
  • Valla, Lorenzo
  • Celenza, Christopher S.
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Studies in the history of Christian traditions
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172
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  • Valla, Lorenzo
  • Valla, Lorenzo
  • Thomas
  • Popes
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Christianity, latinity, and culture : two studies on Lorenzo Valla, by Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P. ; translated by Patrick Baker ; edited by Patrick Baker, Christopher S. Celenza ; with Lorenzo Valla's Encomium of Saint Thomas / edited and translated by Patrick Baker
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index
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text
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Introduction: Salvatore Camporeale and Lorenzo Valla / Christopher S. Celenza -- Lorenzo Valla and the De falso credita donatione: rhetoric, freedom, and ecclesiology in the fifteenth century ; Lorenzo Valla between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the Encomium of St. Thomas, 1457 / Salvatore I. Camporeale -- Encomium of St. Thomas Aquinas / Lorenzo Valla, Patrick Baker (ed. and tr.)
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FIEb17473007
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24 cm.
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xiv, 336 pages
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9789004261969
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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color illustations
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(OCoLC)861335173
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Christianity, latinity, and culture : two studies on Lorenzo Valla, by Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P. ; translated by Patrick Baker ; edited by Patrick Baker, Christopher S. Celenza ; with Lorenzo Valla's Encomium of Saint Thomas / edited and translated by Patrick Baker
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index
Carrier category
volume
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rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Introduction: Salvatore Camporeale and Lorenzo Valla / Christopher S. Celenza -- Lorenzo Valla and the De falso credita donatione: rhetoric, freedom, and ecclesiology in the fifteenth century ; Lorenzo Valla between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the Encomium of St. Thomas, 1457 / Salvatore I. Camporeale -- Encomium of St. Thomas Aquinas / Lorenzo Valla, Patrick Baker (ed. and tr.)
Control code
FIEb17473007
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xiv, 336 pages
Isbn
9789004261969
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Other physical details
color illustations
System control number
(OCoLC)861335173

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