# Lorenzo Valla

- id: lorenzo-valla
- dates: 1407–1457
- roles: translator, scholar

The humanist who proved the Donation of Constantine a forgery and gave the papal court its Latin Thucydides and Herodotus.

## Crossings

- c. 1448–1452: History of the Peloponnesian War into Latin (translator) [attested]
- c. 1452–1457: The Histories into Latin (translator) [attested]

## Sources

- N. G. Wilson (1992). From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance.