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Title: The treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine

Author: Lorenzo Valla

Translator: Christopher Bush Coleman

Release date: February 20, 2023 [eBook #70092]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Yale University Press, 1922

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TREATISE OF LORENZO VALLA ON THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINE ***

THE TREATISE OF
LORENZO VALLA ON THE
DONATION OF CONSTANTINE

The First Page of Valla’s Treatise,
Codex Vaticanus Latinus 5314.

THE TREATISE OF
LORENZO VALLA ON THE

DONATION OF CONSTANTINE

TEXT AND TRANSLATION
INTO ENGLISH

CHRISTOPHER B. COLEMAN, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN ALLEGHENY COLLEGE

NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
M.D.CCCC.XXII