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On the Donation of Constantine

by Lorenzo Valla

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 14 x 21.1 x 2.1 cm

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For students of church history and humanism

Unpacks Valla’s critique of a famous Church text

You will gain clarity on a key historical debate

A scholarly examination of the historical document that once shaped the power of the papacy.

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Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, On Elegance in the Latin Language, which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and Dialectical Disputations, a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. His most famous work is On the Donation of Constantine, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule. It appears here in a new translation with introduction and notes by G. W. Bowersock, based on the critical text of Wolfram Setz (1976). This volume also includes a text and translation of the Constitutum Constantini, commonly known as the Donation of Constantine.

  • Title

    On the Donation of Constantine

  • Author

    Lorenzo Valla

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    April 2007

  • Weight

    338g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.1 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674025332

  • ISBN-10

    0674025334

  • Eden Code

    5580374