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Author Camporeale, Salvatore I

Title Christianity, latinity, and culture : two studies on Lorenzo Valla / by Salvatore I. Camporeale ; 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
Published Boston : Brill, 2013

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Series Studies in the history of Christian traditions, 1573-5664 ; VOLUME 172
Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 172.
Contents Christianity, Latinity, and Culture; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on the Translation; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Salvatore Camporeale and Lorenzo Valla; Lorenzo Valla and the De falso credita donatione: Rhetoric, Freedom, and Ecclesiology in the Fifteenth Century; 1. Introduction to a Reinterpretation of the De falso credita donatione; 2. Causa veritatis: From the Exordium to the Peroration; 3. The Antinomy of imperium and evangelium; 4. Section I of the Oration and Parallel Passages in Valla's Works; 5. The Body of the Oration: From Section III to Section VI
6. Section IV: From the Constitutum Constantini to the Legenda Silvestri6.1 The Constitutum; 6.2 The Legenda Silvestri; 7. Section V: From the Pactum Hludovicianum to the respublica romana; Valla's Anti-Caesarism in Opposition to Augustine; 7.1 The Hludovicianum and the "Transfer of the Empire"(translatio imperii); 7.2 From imperium to respublica: The "Second Part" of Section V; 7.3 From Valla to Augustine: The Critique of the City of God; 8. Epilogue: Valla's Defense of the Oration in his Letters to Cardinals Trevisan and Landriani
Lorenzo Valla between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Encomium of St. Thomas -- 14571.1 The Literary Encomium and the Iconographic "Triumph" of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Dominican Tradition; 1.2 The History of Thomism and the Centrality of the Summa Theologiae in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 1.3 Valla's Encomium: Its Place in History and Cultural Significance; 1.4 The Cappellone degli Spagnoli in Florence (Second Half of the Fourteenth Century) and the Cappella Carafa in Rome (End of the Fifteenth Century); 2.1 Exordium and Divine Invocation
2.2 The narratio and the Liturgical Celebration of the Saint2.3 Probatio and refutatio, the Central Section of the Encomium; 2.4 Knowledge, the Second Thematic Unit; 2.5 Valla's Critique of Scholasticism and the Controversy between Thomism and Anti-Thomism in the Fifteenth Century; 2.6 The Stylistic Qualities of Thomas's Writings and the Canons of Latin Rhetoric; 2.7 The Critique of Scholastic Speculation and the Humanist Refounding of Theological Study; 2.8 Philosophy as an "Impediment" to Authentic Christian Thought and the Distinction/Opposition between Patristic Theology and Scholasticism
2.9 The Reduction of Philosophy to Rhetoric and Valla's Quintilianism2.10 The Linguistic-Semantic Critique of Scholasticism and the Interrelation between Greek and Latin; 2.11 Peroration and Closing of the Encomium; 3.1 Philosophy/Theology; 3.2 Dialectic/Rhetoric; 4.1 The proemium to Book IV of the Elegantiae; 4.2 The Letter to Eustochium and Jerome's Dream; 4.3 The Mechanical Arts, the Liberal Arts, and the Christian Religion; 4.4 The Opposition between Philosophical Theology and Rhetorical Theology, and the Critical Reduction of the Vulgate to the Greek Truth (veritas graeca)
Summary This book presents, for the first time in English, two studies by Salvatore I. Camporeale (1928-2002) on the fifteenth-century thinker Lorenzo Valla. Camporeale's work offers new perspectives on Valla, in terms of both content and method
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457. De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio.
Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457. Encomion s. Thomae
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
SUBJECT Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast
Constitutum Constantini. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80123519
Encomion s. Thomae (Valla, Lorenzo) fast
Constitutum Constantini fast
De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio (Valla, Lorenzo) fast
Subject Popes -- Temporal power -- Early works to 1800
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
Popes -- Temporal power
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Baker, Patrick, 1976-
Celenza, Christopher S., 1967-
Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457. De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio. English.
Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457. Encomion s. Thomae. English.
E.J. Brill (Firm) BRILL2014FL
ISBN 9004261974
9789004261976