On the Donation of Constantine (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Valla, Lorenzo

ISBN 10: 0674030893 / ISBN 13: 9780674030893

Published by Harvard University Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Donation of Constantine (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674030893
• ISBN 13: 9780674030893
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) was the leading theorist of the Renaissance humanist movement and the author of major works on Latin style, scholastic logic, and other topics. In On the Donation of Constantine he uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy’s claims to temporal rule, in a brilliant analysis that is often seen as marking the beginning of modern textual criticism. Widely translated throughout Europe during the Reformation, the work was placed on the Church’s Index of Prohibited Books. This volume provides a new translation with introduction and notes by G. W. Bowersock, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, along with a translation of the Donation of Constantine document itself.

About the Author

G. W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.