Most known for aiding Alfonso of Aragon, king of Naples in his war against Eugenius IV, for ten points, who attacked the pope by proving the forgery of the Donation of Constantine?
He claimed that Quintilian was a better stylist than Cicero, delivered an antiencomium of Thomas Aquinas to Dominicans on the saint's anniversary, refused to credit the 12 Apostles with authorship of the Apostles' Creed, and used his dialogue De voluptate to attack stoicism and defend Epicurus. Most known for aiding Alfonso of Aragon, king of Naples in his war against Eugenius IV, for ten points, who attacked the pope by proving the forgery of the Donation of Constantine?
He claimed that Quintilian was a better stylist than Cicero, delivered an antiencomium of Thomas Aquinas to Dominicans on the saint's anniversary, refused to credit the 12 Apostles with authorship of the Apostles' Creed, and used his dialogue De voluptate to attack stoicism and defend Epicurus.
Lorenzo {Valla} or Laurentius {Vallensis}