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Dialectical disputations / Lorenzo Valla ; edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver and Lodi Nauta.

Title
Dialectical disputations / Lorenzo Valla ; edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver and Lodi Nauta.
Author
Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Copenhaver, Brian P.
  • Nauta, Lodi
Description
2 v.; 21 cm.
Summary
"Dialectical Disputations, translated here for the first time into any modern language, is his principal contribution to the philosophy of language and logic. With this savage attack on the scholastic tradition of Aristotelian logic, Valla aimed to supersede it with a new logic based on the actual historical usage of classical Latin and on a commonsense approach to semantics and argument. Valla provides a logic that could be used by lawyers, preachers, statesmen, and others who needed to succeed in public debate--one that was stylistically correct and rhetorically elegant, and thus could dispense with the technical language of the scholastics, a "tribe of Peripatetics, perverters of natural meanings." Valla's reformed dialectic became a milestone in the development of humanist logic and contains startling anticipations of modern theories of semantics and language."--Publisher description.
Series Statement
I Tatti Renaissance library ; ITRL 49-50
Uniform Title
  • Dialecticae disputationes. English & Latin
  • I Tatti Renaissance library ; 49-50.
Alternative Title
Dialecticae disputationes.
Subject
  • Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457
  • Philosophy, Renaissance
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction in English.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
v.1. Book I -- v.2. Books II-III.
ISBN
  • 9780674055766 (vol. 1, book i, itrl 49 : alk. paper)
  • 0674055764 (vol. 1, book i, itrl 49 : alk. paper)
  • 9780674061408 (vol. 2, books ii and iii, itrl 50 : alk. paper)
  • 0674061403 (vol. 2, books ii and iii, itrl 50 : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011032194
OCLC
  • 746618739
  • SCSB-10869737
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library