On the Donation of Constantine - Couverture souple

Valla, Lorenzo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674030893 ISBN 13 : 9780674030893

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the leading theorist of the Renaissance humanist movement and the author of major works on Latin style, scholastic logic, and other topics. In On the Donation of Constantine he uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule, in a brilliant analysis that is often seen as marking the beginning of modern textual criticism. Widely translated throughout Europe during the Reformation, the work was placed on the Church's Index of Prohibited Books. This volume provides a new translation with introduction and notes by G. W. Bowersock, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, along with a translation of the Donation of Constantine document itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674030893
• ISBN 13: 9780674030893
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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