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Donation of Constantine

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Donation of Constantine

Forged 8th-century document purporting to record the Roman emperor Constantine's surrender of temporal sovereignty in Western Europe to Pope Sylvester I (314–25).

In the Middle Ages, this document was used as papal propaganda in the struggle between pope and emperor, which was at its most heated during the investiture contest. It was finally exposed as forged by the German philosopher Nicholas of Cusa and Lorenzo Valla in the 15th century.
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In Lorenzo Valla's On the Donation of Constantine (1440), Bowersock provides a new translation in company with the Latin text established by Wofram Setz for Monumenta Germaniae Historical (1976).
Ciceronian Controversies by Rutherford, David / Renaissance Quarterly
If the churches fell out over slavery, the Protestant republic would disintegrate into chaos and fratricide, a sure sign that the mandate of heaven had been withdrawn--or worse, exposed as a delusion every bit as fraudulent as the Donation of Constantine, said to have given territorial rights to the Vatican in the early fourth century.
God's country? by McCarraher, Eugene / Commonweal
The writing of history and the precision of dating took on importance first at the time of the Renaissance and Reformation when papal tradition was under attack, as exemplified by Lorenzo Valla's Declamation Concerning the False Donation of Constantine (1440).
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