1407–1457. Active in Rome and Naples. Wrote in Latin and Italian. A Renaissance humanist whose dialogue De Voluptate ("On Pleasure") is an early and daring attempt to rehabilitate Epicurean ethics within a nominally Christian intellectual world, arguing pleasure's case against Stoic virtue-ethics with real philosophical seriousness.
1. Forum Discussions
- All discussions of Lorenzo Valla in Epicureans of the Past
- On Pleasure / On The True and The False Good - Lorenzo Valla
- Lorenzo Valla in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum