• Giorgio Valla (Latin: Georgius Valla; Piacenza 1447–Venice 1500) was an Italian academic, mathematician, philologist and translator. He was born in Piacenza...
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    Lorenzo Valla (Italian: [loˈrɛntso ˈvalla]; also Latinized as Laurentius; c. 1407 – 1 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator...
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    avoiding things) is an encyclopedia which was compiled by Giorgio Valla in 49 books. Valla died in 1500 and the work was then published by his adopted...
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  • include: Esat Valla, Kosovar Albanian painter Gerd-Liv Valla, Norwegian trade union leader Giorgio Valla (1447–1500), scientist Kristin Valla (born 1975)...
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  • Archimedes. The Latin phrase is attested in a 1501 Euclid translation of Giorgio Valla. Its abbreviation q.e.d. is used once in 1598 by Johannes Praetorius...
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  • "movement").: 331  The same term is kept in a 1501 translation by Giorgio Valla, and subsequently by Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, Guidobaldo...
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    compiled by Sir Henry Savile. The earliest Latin translation was made by Giorgio Valla in 1488. There is also a 1572 Latin translation and commentary by Frederico...
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  • Lubo (film) (category Films directed by Giorgio Diritti)
    film directed by Giorgio Diritti. The screenplay was written by Diritti and Fredo Valla, based on an idea by Giorgio Diritti, Fredo Valla and Tania Pedroni...
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    Coren 2006, p. 124. Aesop (1980) [First published 1951]. Manganelli, Giorgio; Valla, Elena Ceva (eds.). Esopo Favole. Rizzoli. Alderton, David (2010). The...
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    Aristotle, De Caelo, Book 2, Part 13 E.Rosen, Nicholaus Copernicus and Giorgio Valla, Physis. Rivista internazionale di Storia della Scienza, 23, 1981, pp...
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    Giorgio Valla was posthumously printed in 1501 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice. This work followed the traditional scheme of liberal arts. However, Valla added...
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    gained a rich understanding of metaphorical and figurative tropes. Giorgio Valla's 1498 Latin translation of Aristotle's text (the first to be published)...
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  • of Virgil, Brill, 2000, p. 312 Raschieri, Amedeo Alessandro (2012). "Giorgio Valla, Editor and Translator of Ancient Scientific Texts". In Olmos, Paula...
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  • pseudonymous author's intention of placing Plato in the Pythagorean tradition. Giorgio Valla, in the fifteenth century, translated On the Nature of the World and...
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    Giorgio Valla was posthumously printed in 1501 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice. This work followed the traditional scheme of liberal arts. However, Valla added...
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  • immensely popular among humanists and was translated into Latin by Giorgio Valla (in ms. Vat. lat. 3898). The first printed edition of the text appeared...
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    and Greek culture from him. Among his numerous pupils in Milan was Giorgio Valla and, in Messina, Pietro Bembo, Angelo Gabrieli, Urbano Valeriani, Cola...
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    promoted to the chair of humanities at San Marco to replace the late Giorgio Valla. Egnazio hoped to be appointed to Sabellico's vacant lectureship, but...
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  • Visio delectable, c.1484 Jacob Meydenbach, Hortus Sanitatis, 1491 Giorgio Valla, De expetendis et fugiendis rebus, 1501 Domenico Nani Mirabelli, Polyanthea...
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    criticism was in 1498, with the recovery of classic texts, most notably, Giorgio Valla's Latin translation of Aristotle's Poetics. The work of Aristotle, especially...
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    Beringorum fratrum. OCLC 11306222. Antonio Musa Brassavola (1500-1555) Giorgio Valla (1447-1500) Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) Ludovico Bonaccioli [it] (1475-1536)...
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    Among the Italian humanists who taught there were George of Trebizond, Giorgio Valla, Marcantonio Sabellico, Raphael Regius, Battista Egnazio, and Marco...
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    on the Greek text of Aristotle. In 1504, he was elected to succeed Giorgio Valla as chair of Greek in Venice, but because Thomaeus failed to take the...
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  • "prevailing notions of poetry" into[clarification needed] the 16th century. Giorgio Valla's 1498 Latin translation of Aristotle's text (the first to be published)...
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  • also a patron of humanist scholars recovering the classics, such as Giorgio Valla and Vettor Fausto. Giovanni was born around 1465. His father was Renier...
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    study under some of Venice's finest teachers at the time including Giorgio Valla and Marcantinio Sabellico. It was Sabellico that changed Valeriano's...
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  • 8 16 (including 12 unplaced) Ekkehard IV c. 980 – c. 1056 AD 5, 7 2 Giorgio Valla 1447 – 1500 AD — 1 unplaced Girolamo Colonna fl. 16th century AD 9 1...
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    written speculatively. He was given a teaching position as deputy to Giorgio Valla. In 1487 he was appointed as a curator of the Biblioteca Marciana. Sabellicus...
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  • scholion is now lost, but it was quoted by Giorgio Valla in his 1486 edition of Juvenal. The text quoted by Valla is attributed to "Sulpicius", and was first...
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    Monemvasia in Greece 1506–1509. At some point it came into possession of Giorgio Valla (1447–1500), a Venetian academic, and some time later, it was in the...
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