On the donation of Constantine / Lorenzo Valla ; translated by G. W. Bowersock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457.

Contributor:

Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936-

Series:

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 24.

The I Tatti Renaissance library ; 24

Standardized Title:

De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio. English & Latin

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Constitutum Constantini.

Popes--Temporal power--Early works to 1800.

Popes.

Popes--Temporal power.

Physical Description:

xvi, 206 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

Translated from the Latin.

Summary:

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."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index.

ISBN:

0674025334

9780674025332

OCLC:

76925167