the ledger of connections
The Connections of Lorenzo Valla
Italian Renaissance humanist (c. 1407–1457) Every person recorded alongside Lorenzo Valla in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Lorenzo Valla in the ledgers of the archive.
- Teachers
- Leonardo Bruni, Giovanni Aurispa
- Students
- Julius Pomponius Laetus, Giovanni Garzoni, Giuniano Maio
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1407 to 1457.
Medieval era
Mehmed the Conqueror
March 30, 1432 – May 3, 1481
Seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
Medieval era
Joan of Arc
1412 – May 30, 1431
Peasant girl who led French armies and became a saint and national symbol
Medieval era
Henry V of England
September 16, 1386 – August 31, 1422
King of England from 1413 to 1422
Medieval era
Ferdinand II of Aragon
March 10, 1452 – January 23, 1516
King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, and Valencia (1452-1516)
Medieval era
Isabella I of Castile
April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504
Queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)
Medieval era
Vlad the Impaler
1431 – December 14, 1476
15th-century ruler of Wallachia
Medieval era
Sejong the Great
April 10, 1397 – February 17, 1450
Fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
Medieval era
Pachacuti
1380 – 1460
11th Inca Emperor
Medieval era
Johannes Gutenberg
1400 – February 3, 1468
Inventor of movable-type printing, the engine of the modern mind
Medieval era
Donatello
1386 – December 13, 1466
Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (1386–1466)
Medieval era
Sandro Botticelli
1445 – 1510
Italian painter (1445–1510)
Medieval era
Jan van Eyck
1390 – July 9, 1441
Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)