The Profession of the Religious and selections from The Falsely-Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine, by Lorenzo Valla

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The Profession of the Religious and selections from The Falsely-Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine, by Lorenzo VallaOverview Lorenzo Valla (1407 1457) was a leading humanist scholar and controversial writer of the fifteenth century. Born in Rome, he spent part of his early life in other cities in Italy teaching rhetoric. After serving as secretary to the king of Naples, Alfonso V of Aragon, from 1435 to 1448, he eventually returned to his native city where he became apostolic secretary two years before his death. Although his works, all written in Latin, treat a

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but the essays are bound together by their common search to define paradigms of femininity in the early modern period

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continued their attacks

His work focuses on Florentine political and intellectual history

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“This collection exposes those of us unable to benefit directly from Professor Eisler’s teaching to a demonstration of what the mentorship of someone with such wide-ranging interests and a laser-like focus on good scholarship can produce

Her monograph Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy (2005) won the 2006 Gordon Prize from the Renaissance Society of America

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criminals on their way to execution and women deftly rescuing families from their world's turmoil

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