Valla, Giorgio, 1447-1500
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Name (Latin)
Valla, Giorgio, 1447-1500
Other forms of name
Valla, G. (Giorgio), 1447-1500
Valla, Georg, 1447-1500
Valla, Georgio, 1447-1550
Valla, Georgius, 1447-1500
Date of birth
1447
Date of death
1500-01-23
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Georgij Vallae Placentini viri clarissimi de uniuersi corporis purgatione, [1529]:title page (Georgii Vallae)
- Giorgio Valla (born 1447 in Piacenza, died on January 23rd, 1500 in Venice) was an Italian humanist, beginning in the late 1460s, Valla alternated between his activities as a translator from Latin and Greek classics and as a teacher of the two languages.He is active as a teacher in Pavia from 1466 until 1485, with some diversions to Milan and Genoa. After 1485 he moved to Venice, his stay in Venice also enabled Valla to intensify his scientific and philological relations with the most prominent intellectuals in European society and to have fruitful social relations with powerful Venetians, such as the Loredans and the Mocenigos, he remained in Venice until his death ( (Italian Wikipedia, viewed June 12th, 2024) )
- Valla, Giorgio, born 1447 in Piacenza, died 1500; active in Venice, was an Italian humanist, translator of Greek manuscripts, mathematician and physicist; also a physician and musicologist ( (Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, viewed June 12th, 2024) )
- Nederlandse Thesaurus van Auteursnamen (NTA), viewed April 29, 2025(Valla, Georgio)
- Gardenal, G. Giorgio Valla tra scienza e sapienza, 1981:t.p. (Giorgio Valla) p. 93 (G. Valla; b. 1447 in Piacenza) p. 96 (d. 1500 in Venice)
- M.T. Ciceronis Tusculanarum quaestionum libri V, 1549:t.p. (Georgij Vallae)
- Heiberg, J. L. Beiträge zur Geschichte Georg Valla's und seiner Bibliothek, 1968