num_pages: 224
description: 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 .
language: English
title: On the Donation of Constantine
titlecomplete: On the Donation of Constantine (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
genres: Politics, Philosophy, European History, Nonfiction, Christian, History
ratings_count: 78
publisher: Harvard University Press