Giorgio Valla

Giorgio Valla (Latin: Georgius Valla; 1447–1500) was an Italian academic, mathematician, philologist and translator. Among his works is a Latin translation of Aristarchus's On the Sizes and Distances (1488).

Works

Treatises

De orthographia (1495), Vienna
De expedita ratione argumentandi (1498; also Basel, 1529)
Logica (1498), Venice
De simplicium natura (1528) Strassburg (on pharmacology)
Georgii Vallae Placentini viri class. De expetendis et fugiendis rebus (1501, 40 books in 2 vols.), pr. Aldus Manutius, Venice.

Commentaries, critical editions and translations

Problemata Alexandri Aphrodisei, per Georgium Vallam in latinum translata Venice: Antonio de Strada, 1488
Galeni introductorium ad medicinam Georgio Valla interprete (1491), pr. Bartholomaeus de Zanis, Venice
Opus magnorum moralium Aristotelis (1522), with Latin translation by Girardo Ruffo Vaccariensi, Paris
Juvenalis cum tribus commentariis (1485, repr. 1495), Venice
M. Tullii Ciceronis epistolae familiares (1505), Lyons
Preface to the Commentary on Juvenal of Antonio Mancinelli (1494), Venice.

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