This study is the first to provide a systematic analysis of the dispute between the humanists Lorenzo Valla (14061457) and Poggio Bracciolini (13801459) in the mid-fifteenth century. It shows how the two agonists based their Latin writings on divergent understandings of imitation and which immediate consequences this produced in relation to the socioliterary conventions of the humanist movement.

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Tristan Spillmann, Chair of Latin, Department of Greek and Latin Philology, University of Bonn, Germany.