translator · scholar

Lorenzo Valla

1407–1457

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 , Greek Latin · translator · Rome attested
c. 1452–1457 The Histories , Greek Latin · translator · Rome attested

Sources

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