Lorenzo Valla

Italian Renaissance humanist (c. 1407–1457)

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Lorenzo Valla was an Italian Renaissance scholar and writer (c. 1407–1457) who helped pioneer humanist approaches to studying classical texts and languages with critical rigor. His work matters because he developed methods for analyzing ancient documents that became foundational to modern historical and textual criticism.

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QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,570x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,518x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,384x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,811x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,764x

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Lorenzo Valla ( Italian: [loˈrɛntso ˈvalla]; also latinized as Laurentius; c. 1407 – 1 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist scholar, rhetorician, educator, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore attacking and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the papacy. Lorenzo is sometimes seen as a precursor of the Reformation.

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