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Brian P. Copenhaver is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directed the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Lodi Nauta is Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Copenhaver and Nauta have found precisely Valla’s inimitable voice.
Throughout their Dialectical Disputations, the reader can hear the
utterly infectious immediacy with which Valla read the works of the
ancient world. The glowing gift of the Renaissance was its refusal
to think of those works as dead—buoyed by the ongoing re-discovery
of manuscripts and armed with a revived knowledge of Greek and
Latin, scholars and bookworms like Valla embarked on entirely new
ways of reading, and our translators perfectly capture how personal
an endeavor it was… Readers seeking lively, challenging company
can’t do much better than Valla, and now they have his greatest
work in an English language version he would have loved.
*Open Letters Monthly*
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