Title: Augustini Steuchi Eugubini bibliothecarii contra Laurentium Vallam, De falsa Donatione Constantini. Libro duo. Eiusdem De restituenda navigatione Tiberis [Bound with
Description: <p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">4to.
pp. [16], 234, [2]; pp. <span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);">19, [1]. Signatures:
a-b<sup>4</sup> a-z<sup>4</sup> A-E<sup>4</sup> F<sup>6</sup>;</span><span style="color:#212529;"> a⁴ b⁶. </span>Contemporary limp vellum. <span style="color:#212529;">Printer's device on title page, initial. </span>Early
inscription on both titles, ‘Loci S. Crucis montis novi’, i.e. Heiligenkreutz
Abbey in Neuberg, Austria.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
main work is the quasi-official refutation by the Counter-Reformation
polemicist and prefect of the Vatican Library Agostino Steuco (1497-1548) of
Lorenzo Valla’s De falso credita et ementita Constantini donation. Valla’s celebrated
work is a rebuttal of the Donation of Constantine, a forged imperial decree in which
Constantine the Great granted authority over the Western Roman Empire to the Pope
(see Bib# 3494433/Fr# 131 in this collection). It is the first edition,
translated into English in the same year. Contra Vallam was almost instantly
translated into English during the inaugural year of the staunchly Protestant
reign of Edward VI and had a surprising influence on the great English
metaphysical poet, preacher, and one-time Catholic John Donne, who repeatedly cited
and echoed the work. See R. Delph, “Valla Grammaticus, Agostino Steuco, and the
Donation of Constantine,” in Journal of the History of Ideas, 57 (1996), 1, pp.
55-77; H. Adlington, “More Books from the Library of John Donne,” in The Book
Collector, 60 (Spring 2012), 1, pp. 55–64; E. Havens, “Babelic Confusion.
Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens
(eds.), <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, </span><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);">Baltimore, </span><span style="color:#212529;">2018</span></span>, pp. 44-45, 68-69
n. 16; W. Stephens, “Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo’s First Master
Critic,” in id.<span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">, p. 178, 188 n. 29-30.</span></span></span></p><p></p>

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<p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
other work urges Pope Paul III to widen and deepen the course of the Tiber, and
to refurbish the old Roman aqueduct known as the ‘aqua virgo’.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">See
also H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe,
1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, S 1839.<span style="color:#212529;"></span></span></p><p></p>

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