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Author: Lorenzo Valla
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0674724674

Correspondence (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. Get Correspondence literature books for free.
His extant Latin letters are fewer than those of many of his contemporaries, since he never collected or consciously preserved them. For that reason they afford a direct and unguarded window into the working life of the most passionate, difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists. They show him as a teacher and secretary, but above all as a writer who continually worked and reworked his major contributions to dialectic and philology, notably his masterpiece on the Elegances of the Latin Language, a central text of the Renaissance. More plentiful are the letters of others to him, Check Correspondence our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.