Lorenzo Valla

Portrait of Valla made for [[Jean-Jacques Boissard Lorenzo Valla (; also Latinized as Laurentius; 1 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator and scholar. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore attacking and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the papacy. Lorenzo is sometimes seen as a precursor of the Reformation. Provided by Wikipedia
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