| On the Donation of Constantine Contributor(s): Valla, Lorenzo (Author), Bowersock, G. W. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0674025334 ISBN-13: 9780674025332 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | History - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 262.132 |
| LCCN: 2006052944 |
| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.18" W x 7.97" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bowersock, G. W.: - G. W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. |