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Lorenzo Valla
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Lorenzo Valla

Italian Renaissance humanist

Born 1407 · died 1 August 1457, aged 49 or 50
Also known as Laurence Valla

Who was alive at the same time as Lorenzo Valla?

  1. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  2. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  3. Pope Callixtus III, 1379 – 1458
  4. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  5. Henry V of England, 1386 – 1422
  6. Jan van Eyck, c. 1390 – 1441
  7. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  8. Leon Battista Alberti, 1404 – 1472
  9. Pope Pius II, 1405 – 1464
  10. Lorenzo Valla, 1407 – 1457
  11. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 – 1431
  12. Vlad the Impaler, c. 1430 – c. 1477
  13. Pope Alexander VI, c. 1431 – 1503
  14. François Villon, 1431 – 1463
  15. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  16. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  17. Pope Julius II, 1443 – 1513
  18. Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450 – 1516
  19. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  20. Isabella I of Castile, 1451 – 1504
  21. Ferdinand II of Aragon, 1452 – 1516
  22. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  23. Richard III of England, 1452 – 1485
  24. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512

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When Lorenzo Valla was born, Pope Pius II was 1 or 2, Leon Battista Alberti was 2 or 3, Pope Callixtus III was 27 or 28, Henry V of England was 20 or 21 and Skanderbeg was 1 or 2.

When Lorenzo Valla died, Leonardo da Vinci was 5, Christopher Columbus was 5 or 6, Mehmed II was 25, Amerigo Vespucci was 3 and Isabella I of Castile was 6.

Born during Lorenzo Valla’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Mehmed II, Sandro Botticelli, Amerigo Vespucci, Pope Alexander VI and Isabella I of Castile.

Not quite contemporaries: Niccolò Machiavelli was born about 12 years after Lorenzo Valla died, Albrecht Dürer was born about 14 years after Lorenzo Valla died, Vasco da Gama was born about a year after Lorenzo Valla died and Geoffrey Chaucer died about 5 years before Lorenzo Valla was born.

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The 81 best-known contemporaries

81 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lorenzo Valla. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1433.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  3. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  4. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  5. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  6. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  7. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  8. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  9. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  10. Jan Hus c. 1375 – 1415
  11. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  12. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  13. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  14. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  15. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  16. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  17. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  18. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  19. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  20. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  21. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  22. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  23. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  24. Jami 1414 – 1492
  25. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  26. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  27. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  28. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  29. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  30. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  31. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  32. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  33. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  34. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  35. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  36. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  37. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  38. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  39. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  40. Masaccio 1401 – 1428
  41. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  42. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  43. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  44. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  45. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  46. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  47. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  48. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  49. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  50. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  51. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  52. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  53. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  54. Henry IV of England 1367 – 1413
  55. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  56. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  57. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  58. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  59. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  60. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  61. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  62. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  63. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  64. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  65. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  66. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  67. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  68. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  69. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  70. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  71. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  72. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  73. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  74. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  75. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  76. Margaret I of Denmark 1353 – 1412
  77. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  78. Manuel II Palaiologos 1350 – 1425
  79. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  80. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  81. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481