Christianity, Latinity, and Culture

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Copyright

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Contents

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List of Illustrations

pp.：  11 – 12

Note on the Translation

pp.：  13 – 14

Acknowledgements

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Introduction: Salvatore Camporeale and Lorenzo Valla

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Lorenzo Valla and the De falso credita donatione: Rhetoric, Freedom, and Ecclesiology in the Fifteenth Century

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1. Introduction to a Reinterpretation of the De falso credita donatione

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2. Causa veritatis: From the Exordium to the Peroration

pp.：  44 – 52

3. The Antinomy of imperium and evangelium

pp.：  53 – 69

4. Section I of the Oration and Parallel Passages in Valla’s Works

pp.：  70 – 72

5. The Body of the Oration: From Section III to Section VI

pp.：  73 – 88

6. Section IV: From the Constitutum Constantini to the Legenda Silvestri

pp.：  89 – 116

6.1 The Constitutum

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6.2 The Legenda Silvestri

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7. Section V: From the Pactum Hludovicianum to the respublica romana; Valla’s Anti-Caesarism in Opposition to Augustine

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7.1 The Hludovicianum and the “Transfer of the Empire”(translatio imperii)

pp.：  118 – 124

7.2 From imperium to respublica: The “Second Part” of Section V

pp.：  125 – 127

7.3 From Valla to Augustine: The Critique of theCity of God

pp.：  128 – 149

8. Epilogue: Valla’s Defense of the Oration in his Letters to Cardinals Trevisan and Landriani

pp.：  150 – 160

Lorenzo Valla between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Encomium of St. Thomas – 1457

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1. At the Origins of Neo-Thomism in the Fifteenth Century

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1.1 The Literary Encomium and the Iconographic “Triumph” of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Dominican Tradition

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1.2 The History of Thomism and the Centrality of the Summa Theologiae in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

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1.3 Valla’s Encomium: Its Place in History and Cultural Significance

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1.4 The Cappellone degli Spagnoli in Florence (Second Half of the Fourteenth Century) and the Cappella Carafa in Rome (End of the Fifteenth Century)

pp.：  172 – 179

2. Encomium of St. Thomas

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2.1 Exordium and Divine Invocation

pp.：  181 – 181

2.2 The narratio and the Liturgical Celebration of the Saint

pp.：  182 – 185

2.3 Probatio and refutatio, the Central Section of the Encomium

pp.：  186 – 188

2.4 Knowledge, the Second Thematic Unit

pp.：  189 – 190

2.5 Valla’s Critique of Scholasticism and the Controversy between Thomism and Anti-Thomism in the Fifteenth Century

pp.：  191 – 193

2.6 The Stylistic Qualities of Thomas’s Writings and the Canons of Latin Rhetoric

pp.：  194 – 197

2.7 The Critique of Scholastic Speculation and the Humanist Refounding of Theological Study

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2.8 Philosophy as an “Impediment” to Authentic Christian Thought and the Distinction/Opposition between Patristic Theology and Scholasticism

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2.9 The Reduction of Philosophy to Rhetoric and Valla’s Quintilianism

pp.：  202 – 207

2.10 The Linguistic-Semantic Critique of Scholasticism and the Interrelation between Greek and Latin

pp.：  208 – 211

2.11 Peroration and Closing of the Encomium

pp.：  212 – 218

3. The Aporias of Scholasticism

pp.：  219 – 269

3.1 Philosophy/Theology

pp.：  219 – 249

3.2 Dialectic/Rhetoric

pp.：  250 – 269

4. Rhetoric as a Mode of Theologizing: The Humanist Solution to the Problem

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4.1 The proemium to Book IV of the Elegantiae

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4.2 The Letter to Eustochium and Jerome’s Dream

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4.3 The Mechanical Arts, the Liberal Arts, and the Christian Religion

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4.4 The Opposition between Philosophical Theology and Rhetorical Theology, and the Critical Reduction of the Vulgate to the Greek Truth (veritas graeca)

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4.5 The Preface to Thucydides’ History, Nicholas V’s Literary Project, and the Question of “Translation”

pp.：  297 – 302

4.6 The Arts and Sciences as a Middle Ground (medietas)

pp.：  303 – 306

4.7 Erasmus’s Humanism from the Antibarbari to the Life of Jerome

pp.：  307 – 312

Lorenzo Valla Encomium of St. Thomas Aquinas

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Bibliography

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Index

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