two studies on Lorenzo Valla Camporeale, Salvatore I. creator Baker, Patrick 1976- Celenza, Christopher S. 1967- E.J. Brill (Firm) text bibliography Electronic books. Electronic books. mau 2013 monographic eng ita access 1 online resource. 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. 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" ofSection V; 7.3 From Valla to Augustine: The Critique of theCity 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 theVulgate to the Greek Truth (veritas graeca). 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. Includes bibliographical references and index. Valla, Lorenzo 1407-1457 Valla, Lorenzo 1407-1457 Aquinas, Saint Thomas 1225?-1274 Popes Temporal power Early works to 1800 Christianity Latinity Religion RELIGION Christian Life General BX875.D7 C36 2013 282 Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457 Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457 Camporeale, Salvatore I. (DLC) 2013034464 9004261974 9789004261976 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=653097 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=653097 NhCcYBP 131211 20200709060004.0 ocn883727244 eng