On the Donation of Constantine

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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.