Books

Lorenzo Valla, Dialectical Disputations, edited and translated with introduction and notes by Brian P. Copenhaver and Lodi Nauta, Harvard University Press, Cambridge , Mass.,  2012. 2 vols.,  378 pp. and 550 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05576-6; ISBN 978-0-674-06140-8 ( I Tatti Renaissance Library 49-50) [in press, publication date June 2012]

 

Lodi Nauta, In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla’s Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2009. Xiii+401 pp. $39.95 Euro 36.00. ISBN 978-0-674-03269-9. (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History)

- Winner of the Journal of the History of Philosophy Prize for "the Best Book on the History of Philosophy, 2009"

- Winner of the Research Prize, Werkgroep Italian Studies, Low Countries, for "the best publication on Italian Studies (incl. Neo-Latin Studies)"

 

Dante, Pleidooi voor de eigen taal. De vulgari eloquentia , vertaald, ingeleid en van een nawoord voorzien door Lodi Nauta, Historische Uitgeverij, Groningen 2001 (Filosofie en retorica; IX), 176 pp. ISBN 90-6554-472-0.

 

Guillelmi de Conchis Glosae super Boetium , cura et studio Lodi Nauta, Brepols: Turnhout 1999 (Guillelmi de Conchis Opera Omnia II, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 158). 530 pp. ISBN 2-503-0458-2. [commercial ed. of Part I of the diss.]

 

Lodi Nauta, William of Conches and the Tradition of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae. An Edition of his 'Glosae super Boetium' and Studies of the Latin Commentary Tradition , dissertation University of Groningen 1999, 610 pp.

- Winner of the Keetje Hodshon Prize of the Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, 1999.

 

Edited Books

Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance , ed. Lodi Nauta, Peeters: Leuven 2006 (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, XXIV)  xv + 224 pp.

Imagination in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times , eds. Lodi Nauta and Detlev Pätzold, Peeters: Leuven 2004 (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, XII), xv + 213 pp.

Kernthema's van de filosofie , eds. Martin van Hees, Else de Jonge en Lodi Nauta, Boom: Amsterdam 2003 (5th ed. 2008)

Between Demonstration and Imagination. Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy Presented to John D. North , eds. Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt, Brill: Leiden 1999 (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 96), xvi + 424 pp.

Boethius in the Middle Ages. Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the "Consolatio Philosophiae" , eds. Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen and Lodi Nauta, Brill: Leiden 1997, viii + 380 pp. (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 58)

 

Articles (with links to full texts)

- 'From Universals to Topics: The Realism of Rudolph Agricola, with an Edition of his Reply to a Critic', forthcoming in Vivarium 50 (2012)

- ' Anti-essentialism and the Rhetoricization of Knowledge: Mario Nizolio’s Humanist Attack on Universals' [PDF], Renaissance Quarterly 65:1 (2012), 31-66

- 'Rabelais’ Laughter behind a Portrait by Holbein: Play and Culture in the Work of Johan Huizinga', forthcoming in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, ed. M. Israëls and L. A. Waldman, Florence, 2012

- 'Philology as Philosophy: Giovanni Pontano on Language, Meaning, and Grammar' [PDF], The Journal of the History of Ideas 72:3 (2011), 481-502

- 'Lorenzo Valla sulle forme di argomentazione', in Le radici umanistiche dell'Europa. Lorenzo Valla e la riforma della lingua e della logica, ed. M. Regoliosi, Polistampa, Florence 2010, 417-442

- ' The Consolation: The Latin Commentary Tradition: 800-1700' [PDF], in: The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, ed. J. Marenbon, Cambridge 2009, 255-278

- 'From an Outsider's Point of View: Lorenzo Valla on the Soul' [PDF], in Transformations of the Soul: Aristotelian Psychology 1250-1650, ed. D. Perler, special issue of Vivarium 46 (2008), 368-391

- ‘Lorenzo Valla’s autograph notabilia to Cicero and Boethius in Florence  [PDF] , BML, Conv. Soppr. 475’ [PDF], Studi medievali e umanistici 5-6 (2007-2008), 446-459 

- 'Lorenzo Valla and the Rise of Humanist Dialectic' [PDF], in The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy , ed. J. Hankins, Cambridge 2007, 193-210

- ‘The Price of Reduction: Problems in Lorenzo Valla’s Epicurean Fideism’ [PDF], Ethik – Wissenschaft oder Lebenskunst? Modelle der Normenbegründung von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit, eds. S. Ebbersmeyer & E. Kessler, Berlin 2007, 173-195

- 'Lorenzo Valla and Quattrocento Scepticism' [PDF], Vivarium 44 (2006) 375-395

- ‘Linguistic Relativity and the Humanist Imitation of Classical Latin’ [PDF], in Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Lodi Nauta, Peeters: Leuven 2006, 173-185

- 'A Weak Chapter in the Book of Nature.  [PDF] Hans Blumenberg on Medieval Thought' [PDF], in The Book of Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, eds. Arjo Vanderjagt and Klaas van Berkel, Peeters: Leuven 2005, 135-150

- 'Lorenzo Valla and the Limits of Imagination' [PDF], in Imagination in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, eds. Lodi Nauta and Detlev Pätzold, Peeters: Leuven, 2004, 93-113

- 'William of Conches and the "New Aristotle": A Reply to Peter Dronke' [PDF], Studi Medievali 45 (2004), 445-457

- 'William of Ockham and Lorenzo Valla: False Friends. Semantics and Ontological Reduction' [PDF], Renaissance Quarterly, 56:3 (2003), 613-651

- 'Lorenzo Valla's Critique of Aristotelian Psychology' [PDF], Vivarium 41 (2003), 120-143

- 'Some Aspects of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae in the Renaissance' [PDF], in Boèce ou la chaîne des savoirs. Actes du colloque international de la fondation Singer-Polignac , ed. A. Galonnier, Peeters, Louvain-Paris 2003, 767-778

- 'Hobbes's Views on Religion and the Church between The Elements of Law and Leviathan: A Dramatic Change of Direction? [PDF] ' [PDF], The Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (2002), 577-598

- 'Hobbes the Pessimistic?  [PDF] Continuity of Hobbes's Views on Reason and Eloquence between The Elements of Law and Leviathan' [PDF], British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10:1 (2002), 31-54

- 'Magis Platonicus quam Aristotelicus: Interpretations of Boethius's Platonism from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Century' [PDF], in: The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages. A Doxographic Approach, eds. S. Gersh and M. Hoenen, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin 2002, 165-204

- 'Guillaume de Conches et quelques versions "conchiennes"', in L'Orphée de Boèce au Moyen Âge. Traductions françaises et commentaires latins (XIIe- XVe siècles) , textes réunis par J. Keith Atkinson et Anna Maria Babbi, Edizioni Fiorini, Verona 2000, 143-180

- 'The Study of Boethius's Consolatio in the Low Countries around 1500: The Ghent Boethius (1485) and the Commentary by Agricola/Murmellius (1514)' (with Mariken Goris), in Northern Humanism in European Context, 1469-1625: From the 'Adwert Academy' to Ubbo Emmius, eds. F. Akkerman, A. J. Vanderjagt and A. H. van der Laan, Brill: Leiden 1999, 109-130.

- 'Due North', in Between Demonstration and Imagination. Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy Presented to John D. North, eds. Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt, Brill: Leiden 1999, vii-xiv.

- 'A Humanist Reading of Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae: The Commentary by Murmellius and Agricola (1514)' [PDF], in Between Demonstration and Imagination. Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy Presented to John D. North, eds. Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt, Brill: Leiden 1999, 313-338.

- 'The Glosa as Instrument for the Development of Natural Philosophy: William of Conches' Commentary on Boethius' [PDF], in: Boethius in the Middle Ages. Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the "Consolatio Philosophiae" , eds. Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen and Lodi Nauta, Brill: Leiden 1997, 3-39.

- 'The Scholastic Context of Nicholas Trevet's Commentary on Boethius' [PDF], in: Boethius in the Middle Ages. Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the "Consolatio Philosophiae", eds. Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen and Lodi Nauta, Brill: Leiden 1997, 41-67.

- 'The Preexistence of the Soul in Medieval Thought' [PDF], Recherches de Théologie ancienne et médiévale 63 (1996), 93-135.

- 'Platonic and Cartesian Philosophy in the Commentary on Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae by  [PDF] Pierre  [PDF] Cally' [PDF], British Journal for the History of Philosophy 4/1 (1996), 79-100.

- 'More Platonico loquitur: What Nicholas Trevet really did to William of Conches' (with Alastair Minnis), in Chaucer's 'Boece' and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius, ed. A. J. Minnis, Boydell and Brewer: Cambridge-Woodbridge 1993, 1-33.

- 'The Thirteenth-Century Revision of William of Conches' Commentary on Boethius', in Chauce's 'Boece' and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius, ed. A. J. Minnis, Cambridge-Woodbridge 1993, 189-191.

- 'Trevet's Use of the Boethian Commentary Tradition', in Chaucer's 'Boece' and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius, ed. A. J. Minnis, Cambridge-Woodbridge 1993, 192-196.

 

Other publications (in Dutch)

- ' Augustinus en Boethius: De transformatie van het antieke denken in de late oudheid' [PDF], Groniek nr. 191, Jan. 2012, 45-58

- 'Aan de grenzen van het voorstelbare. Gedachtenexperimenten in de middeleeuwen' [PDF]. Inaugurele rede, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 4 dec. 2007 [At the frontiers of the imaginable. Thought experiments in the middle ages. Inaugural Lecture, Univ. of Groningen], Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: Amsterdam 2007. 28 pp. ISBN 978-90-6984-542-5.

- 'Filosofie en haar geschiedenis' [PDF] [Philosophy and its History], in: Kernthema's van de filosofie, eds. Martin van Hees, Else de Jonge en Lodi Nauta, Boom: Amsterdam 2003, 265-284 [link to text as published but with slightly different lay-out]

- ‘Humanisme en de middeleeuwen’ [PDF] [Humanism and the Middle Ages], Millennium, tijdschrift voor middeleeuwse studies 16:1 (2002), 68-77

- 'Retorica in de middeleeuwen' [PDF] [Rhetoric in the Middle Ages], Lampas. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse classici 34:4-5 (2001), 335-350

- 'Handelen met voorkennis: Boethius' Vertroosting' [Acting with Foreknowledge: Boethius' Consolation], Filosofie Magazine 10:1 (2001), 12-15

- 'De kracht van de gewone taal: Taalkritiek in de geschiedenis van de filosofie' [PDF] [The Power of Ordinary Language: Language Critique in the History of Philosophy], Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 93 (2001), 141-145

- 'Enkele opmerkingen over de rol van analogie in de natuurfilosofie van Willem van Conches en Descartes' [Some remarks on the role of analogy in the natural philosophy of William of Conches and Descartes], in Congresbundel Filosofiedag Groningen 1995, eds. Michel ter Hark et al, Fac. der Wijsbegeerte, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen/Uitgeverij Eburon, Delft, 1995, 113-117.

- 'Dante en de grenzen van de middeleeuwse hermeneutiek' [PDF] [Dante and the Limits of Medieval Hermeneutics], Theoretische Geschiedenis 22/4 (1995), 419-441.

- 'Huizinga's Lente der Middeleeuwen. De plaats van de twaalfde eeuwse renaissance in zijn werk' [PDF] [Huizinga's Spring of the Middle Ages: The Place of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance in his Work], Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 108 (1995), 3-23.

- 'Een postmodern levensgevoel: Ankersmit over de historische ervaring' [A Postmodern Feeling of Life: Ankersmit on Historical Experience], Theoretische Geschiedenis 20/3 (1993), 283-290.

- 'Weerwoord op Ankersmit' [Reply to Ankersmit], Theoretische Geschiedenis 20/4 (1993), 534-537.

 

Entries in encyclopedias/handbooks

 ‘Lorenzo Valla’, in The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. W. Otten and K. Pollmann, Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming 2013.

- ‘Lorenzo Valla’, in: The Classical Tradition, eds. A. Grafton, G. Most and S. Settis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, 959-960

- ‘Boethius’, in: The Classical Tradition , eds. A. Grafton, G. Most and S. Settis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, 131-133

- ‘Lorenzo Valla’, in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Philosophy between 500 and 1500, 2 vols., ed. Henrik Lagerlund, Springer 2011, vol. 1, 702-707

- 'Lorenzo Valla',  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published May, 14, 2009 (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lorenzo-valla/). 10,500 words

- 'Ordnung', in Enzyklopädie der Philosophie, Hrg. H. J. Sandkühler, unter Mitwirkung von D. Pätzold, A. Regenbogen und P. Stekeler-Weithofer, Felix Meiner Verlag: Hamburg 1999, Bd. 2, 981-985

- 'Filosofie' (97 lemmata), in: Het Nieuw Cultureel Woordenboek, G. A. Kohnstamm & H. C. Cassee (eds.), Amsterdam 2003, 180-191 (originally publ. as Het Cultureel Woordenboek, 1992).

 

Reviews

- Guillelmus de Conchis, Glosae super Platonem, ed. E. Jeauneau  [PDF] (Guillelmi de Conchis Opera Omnia, III; Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 203) [PDF], Turnhout 2006, in: Speculum 83 (2008), 705-706.

- D. Rutherford (ed.), The  [PDF] Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy  [PDF] , Cambridge 2006, in: Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007), 1422-1424.

- Russell L. Friedman and Lauge O. Nielsen (eds.), The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400-1700  [PDF], Dordrecht etc., 2003, in: Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007), 942-943

- John Monfasani,  Nicolaus Scutellius, O.S.A., as Pseudo-Pletho. The Sixteenth-Century Treatise Pletho in Aristotelem and the Scribe Michael Martinus Stella, Florence 2005, in: Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006), 1264-1266

- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. A Critical Edition by G. A. J. Rogers and Karl Schuhmann, Bristol 2003, in: Renaissance Quarterly 58 (2005), 701-703 

- Karl Schuhmann, Selected papers on Renaissance philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes, eds. Piet Steenbakkers and Cees Leijenhorst, Dordrecht etc. 2004, in: Renaissance Quarterly 58:1 (2005), 358-359

- Mariken Teeuwen, The Vocabulary of Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages, Turnhout 2003, in: Millennium 18 (2004), 143-145

- Rudolph Agricola, Letters. Edited and translated, with notes by Adrie van der Laan and Fokke Akkerman. (Neo-Latin Texts and Translations; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 216.) Assen 2002, in: Isis 95 (2004), 287-288 

- Noel Malcolm, Aspects of Hobbes, Oxford 2002, in: Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004), 622-623

- Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Avicenna's 'De Anima' in the Latin West. The Formation of a Peripatetic Philosophy of the Soul 1160-1300. (Warburg Institute Studies and Texts, 1.) London-Turin 2000, in: Speculum 78 (2003), 1309-1311

- Mariken Goris, Boethius in het Nederlands. Studie naar en tekstuitgave van de Gentse Boethius (1485), boek II, Hilversum 2000, in: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 118 (2002), Web12-Web14 [http://www.leidenuniv.nl/host/mnl/tntl/118]

- Robert Black & Gabriella Pomaro, 'La consolazione della filosofia' nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento italiano. Libri di scuola e glosse nei manoscritti fiorentini, Florence 2000, in: Vivarium 40 (2002), 321-323

- Robert Black, Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy . Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century , Cambridge 2001, in: Medium Aevum 71 (2002), 316-317

- The "Liber Aristotilis" of Hugo of Santalla , edited by Charles Burnett and David Pingree, London 1997, in: Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 76:2, (2001), 474-475

- De uitgelezen Descartes , samengest., ingel. en geann. door Han van Ruler, Amsterdam 1999 & De uitgelezen Spinoza, samengest., ingel. en geann. door Herman De Dijn, Amsterdam 1999, in: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 93:4 (2001), 309-310

- Thomas Hobbes, Elementorum Philosophiae Sectio Prima De Corpore, édition critique, notes, appendices et index par Karl Schuhmann, introduction par Karl Schuhmann avec la collaboration de Martine Pécharman, Paris 1999, in: British Journal for the History of Philosophy 9, (2001), 579-582

- Dante Alighieri, Het Gastmaal. Vertaald, ingeleid en toegelicht door Frans van Dooren en Kees van Dooren, Amsterdam 2001, in: Millennium. Tijdschrift voor Middeleeuwse Studies 15 (2001), 73-75

- Adelard of Bath . Conversations with his Nephew: 'On the same and the different', 'Questions on science' and 'On birds', ed. and transl. by Charles Burnett, with the collab. of Italo Ronca, Pedro Mantas España and Baudouin van den Abeele, Cambridge 1998, in: Medium Aevum 69 (2000), 113-114

- N. Mann and B. Munk-Olsen (eds.), Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship. Proceedings of the second European science foundation workshop on the classical tradition in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Leiden 1997, in: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 6:3 (2000), 476-478

- Augustinus, Wat betekent de bijbel? Christelijke scholing in tekstbegrip en presentatie. 'De doctrina christiana', ingeleid, vertaald en toegelicht door Jan den Boeft en Ineke Sluiter, Amsterdam 1999, in: Millennium. Tijdschrift voor Middeleeuwse Studies 14 (2000), 154-156

- Valla, Om de waarheid en het recht. Bloemlezing uit de humanistische geschriften, vertaald, ingeleid en van een nawoord voorzien door M. van der Poel, Groningen 1998, in: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 91 (1999), 144-145

- Guillelmus de Conchis, 'Dragmaticon Philosophiae', cura et studio I. Ronca Turnhout, 1997, in: Medium Aevum 68/1 (1999), 113-115

- J. McEvoy (ed.), Robert Grosseteste. New Perspectives on his Thought and Scholarship, Turnhout 1995, in: Vivarium 36 (1998), 256-259.

- P. Duhem, L'aube du savoir. Epitomé du 'Système du monde', Paris 1997, in: Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 48/2 (1998), 421-422

- A. Speer, Die entdeckte Natur. Untersuchungen zu Begründungsversuchen einer "scientia naturalis" im 12. Jahrhundert, Leiden 1995, in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 110 (1997), 68-69.

- M. T. Gibson and L. Smith with the assistance of J. Ziegler (eds.), Codices Boethiani. A conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius, vol. 1. Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland , London 1995, in: Medium Aevum 66/1 (1997), 128-129.

- M. Vinck-Van Caekenberghe, Een onderzoek naar het leven, werk en de literaire opvattingen van Cornelis van Ghistele (1510/11-1573), rederijker en humanist, Gent 1996, in: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 113/4 (1997), 365-367.

- P. L. Butzer and D. Lohrmann (eds.), Science in Western and Eastern Civilization in Carolingian Times, Basel 1993, in: Physis. Rivista di storia della scienza 33 n.s. (1996), 336-340.

- M. Fox, Interpreting Maimonides. Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy, Chicago 1990, in: Theoretische Geschiedenis 21/2 (1994), 193-195.

- E. Grant, Planets, Stars, and Orbs. The Medieval Cosmos 1200-1687 , Cambridge 1994, in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 107 (1994), 600-602.

- P. Zambelli, The 'Speculum Astronomiae' and its Enigma. Astrology, Theology, and Science in Albertus Magnus and his Contemporaries , Dordrecht 1992, in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 107 (1994), 82-84.

- Boethius. De vertroosting van de filosofie, vertaald, ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door R. F. M. Brouwer, Baarn 1990 en Boethius. Trost der Philosophie, hrsg. und übersetzt von Ernst Gegenschatz und Olof Gigon; eingeleitet und erläutert von Olof Gigon, München 1990, in: Theoretische Geschiedenis 20:4 (1993), 462-464.

- Johannes Buridan. De ethiek , uitgegeven, ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door H. Krop, Baarn 1988, in: Theoretische Geschiedenis 19:1 (1992), 80-82.

- P. Dronke (ed.), A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy, Cambridge 1988, in: Theoretische Geschiedenis 17:1 (1990), 77-80.