Lorenzo Valla (Dictionary of World Biography: The Renaissance)
Early Life
Few important details have survived concerning the early life of Lorenzo Valla, one of the
greatest of the Italian Renaissance Humanists. It
is known that he was born in Rome in 1407, to a pious, upper-class family that traced its roots
back to Piacenza, in the Italian Alps. The advantages he enjoyed by birth were magnified by his
education, for Valla was extremely fortunate in his instructors, sitting at the feet not only of
Vittorino da Feltre, one of the premier scholars at the University of Rome, but also [The entire page is 2596 words long]
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