On the Donation of Constantine (The I Tatti Renaissance Library 24) - Hardcover

G.W. Bowersock

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674025334 ISBN 13: 9780674025332

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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".

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About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0674025334
• ISBN 13: 9780674025332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224