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

Valla, Lorenzo/ Bowersock, G. W. (TRN)

Harvard University Press（2008/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 144 p.
• 言語 LAT
• 商品コード 9780674030893
• DDC分類 262.132

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Appears here in a new translation with introduction and notes by G. W. Bowersock, based on the critical text of Wolfram Setz (1976).

Full Description

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.