For detailed accounts of Valla's life and work see:
- G. Voigt, Die Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums (1880–81);
- John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy (1897–99);
- G. Mancini, Vita di Lorenzo Valla (Florence, 1891);
- M. von Wolff, Lorenzo Valla (Leipzig, 1893);
- Jakob Burckhardt, Kultur der Renaissance (1860);
- J. Vahlen, Laurentius Valla (Berlin, 1870); L Pastor, Geschichte der Päpste, Band ii. English trans. by FI Antrobus (1892);
- The article in Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopädie, Band xx. (Leipzig, 1908).
- John Edwin Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. ii. (1908), pp. 66‑70.
- Lisa Jardine, "Lorenzo Valla and the Intellectual Origins of Humanist Dialectic," Journal of the History of Philosophy 15 (1977): 143-64.
- Maristella de Panizza Lorch, A defense of life: Lorenzo Valla's theory of pleasure., Humanistische Bibliothek 1/36, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1985, ISBN 978-3-7705-2193-7
- Peter Mack, Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic, Leiden ; New York: E.J. Brill, 1993.
- Matthew DeCoursey, "Continental European Rhetoricians, 1400-1600, and Their Influence in Renaissance England," British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660, First Series, DLB 236, Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 309–343.
- Melissa Meriam Bullard, "The Renaissance Project of Knowing: Lorenzo Valla and Salvatore Camporeale's Contributions to the Querelle Between Rhetoric and Philosophy," Journal of the History of Ideas 66.4 (2005): 477-81.
- Brian P. Copenhaver, "Valla Our Contemporary: Philosophy and Philology," Journal of the History of Ideas 66.4 (2005): 507-25.
- Christopher S. Celenza, "Lorenzo Valla and the Traditions and Transmissions of Philosophy,” Journal of the History of Ideas 66 (2005): 483-506.
- Lodi Nauta, In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla's Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Byrne, Phillipa (2013). "'Cast out into the hellish night': Pagan Virtue and Pagan Poetics in Lorenzo Valla's De voluptate" (PDF). Ex Historia. 5: 48–73. ISSN 2041-0824.
