La falsa donazione di Costantino. Testo latino a fronte

For a book I had to read for school, this wasn't too bad. Valla had no shame in standing up to the papacy back in his day. It was actually quite comical to read because he would be intelligently analyzing the donation and then all of a sudden say something like "so this is why you would have to be a Leggi tutto

Valla's book captures the essence of the critical humanism that was beginning to bloom again in the Italian renaissance. He uses deft historiographic and philological footwork to determine that 'il dono di costantino' was a forgery. The magnitude of this discovery -- that the 5th/6th century Church' Leggi tutto

Thought what I heard about this book was interesting, in that the author more of less tried to tear apart the logic of a document used by the Pope to justify taking certain territories and governing over them. The doc the Pope used being a forgery. I wanted to see how an author from the 16th century Leggi tutto

Lorenzo Valla, a catholic priest and open critic of any and everything he opposed, wrote the treatise in 1439 and 1440. Valla used great sleuthing skills and textual criticism to determine that the document handing over power of the West to the Papacy in the Donation of Constantine was a forgery. Mu Leggi tutto

I think this whole book was pretty funny because it's just Valla debunking this claim of donating a huge portion of western territory to the pope. I think he was just making fun of people, when he's talking about how that doesn't even make sense, and how there is no evidence of the donation and no o Leggi tutto

,,ნამდვილ ორატორად ის უნდა ჩაითვალოს, ვინც არამხოლოდ კარგად საუბრობს, არამედ ბედავს კიდეც საუბარს” ეს კაცი მოვლენაა ისტორიოგრაფაში, ისტორიული ანალიტიკური აზროვნების, კრიტიკის გაჩენა სწორედ მისით იწყება. შუა საუკუნეების გონებრივი სიბნელიდან და პროვიდენციალიზმიდან თავის დაღწევა. იდეალური წასაკითხია, ყვ Leggi tutto

Inizialmente interessante ma finisce un po pesante nella parte che riguarda la donazione dal 600 in avanti...piacevole bel complesso

Documento storico importantissimo sulla natura della reale nascita del potere politico ed economico del cattolicesimo. Un must imperdibile per gli studiosi di storia delle religioni

10/10 for entertainment value.