Radical reform, inevitable debts

Author: Marsico Clementina  

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

E-ISSN: 1569-9781|44|2-3|391-411

ISSN: 0302-5160

Source: Historiographia Linguistica. International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences, Vol.44, Iss.2-3, 2018-01, pp. : 391-411

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Abstract

In a letter to his friend Joan Serra, Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) shows his contempt for medieval grammars, describing Alexander de Villa-Dei, Evrard de Béthune, Giovanni Balbi, and others as faex hominum. Many traces of Valla’s polemics against medieval authors are woven into his linguistic works, in primis in his Elegantie lingue latine.