On the Donation of Constantine, Hardback

Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, 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.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Author(s): Lorenzo Valla
• Illustration(s): none
• Translator: G. W. Bowersock
• Number of pages: 224
• Collection: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
• Publication date: 2007
• Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 21
• Cover type: Hardback