The treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of ConstantineValla, Lorenzo
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The treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine
Valla, Lorenzo
Church and state -- Holy Roman Empire; Constitutum Constantini; Popes -- Temporal power -- Early works to 1800
[344] Bonneau. Metropolis sed Mitropolis; MS. metropolis, sed μητροπόλις;
Hutten.
[345] civitatis sive urbis; Hutten, Bonneau.
[346] Insert ita legendum Simonem; Hutten.
[347] commentitiam; MS.
[348] Lodoici; MS., so throughout.
[349] Pascali; MS., so throughout.
[350] imperpetuum; MS.
[351] predecessoribus; MS.
[352] ditione; MS.
[353] Insert et cetera; Hutten.
[354] ipso; Hutten.
[355] voluerit; Hutten, Bonneau.
[356] tamen; Hutten, Bonneau.
[357] aut; Hutten, Bonneau.
[358] false; MS.
[359] Omit illum; Hutten, Bonneau.
[360] Omit princeps; Hutten.
[361] alioquin; MS.
[362] Insert ut; Hutten, Bonneau.
[363] Omit Romano; Hutten.
[364] provintiisque; MS.
[365] Insert non; Bonneau.
[366] Omit qui dicitur; Hutten.
[367] vocantur; Bonneau.
[368] MS. leaves blank. σεβασός; Hutten.
[369] Insert regno; Bonneau.
[370] ipsius successorum; Bonneau.
[371] tantum; MS.
[372] quinquagessimo; MS.
[373] predas; MS., so throughout.
[374] questionem; MS.
[375] vendicant; MS.
[376] iccirco; MS.
[377] hoc; Hutten, Bonneau.
[378] Amphitrionum; MS., Hutten.
[379] tandiu; MS., Hutten.
[380] his; Hutten, Bonneau.
[381] malae fidei; Hutten, Bonneau, so below.
[382] maliciam; MS.
[383] est; MS.
[384] quantumvis; Hutten, Bonneau, so throughout.
[385] periisse; Hutten, Bonneau, so throughout.
[386] Amonitas; MS.
[387] licet; Hutten.
[388] et, instead of ut in; Hutten, Bonneau.
[389] bonifatii; MS.
[390] Bonifacius; Hutten, Bonneau.
[391] pax; Hutten, Bonneau.
[392] illa; Hutten, Bonneau.
[393] exhauristi; MS.
[394] non must have dropt out of the text.
[395] Hutten, Bonneau. tonantem; MS.
[396] vastitate; MS.
[397] abhominanda; MS., so throughout.
[398] ut dederit familiae cibum, et escam panis; Hutten. donaret, instead
of devorarit; Bonneau.
[399] exorbet; MS.
[400] MS. leaves blank space for the Greek words.
[401] Omit id est populi vexator rex; Hutten. populi vorator, omitting id
est and rex; Bonneau.
[402] questui; MS.
[403] ei; Bonneau.
[404] aufferre; MS.
[405] esse; MS.
[406] Bonneau omits sanctissimo ... fieri.
[407] renunciare; MS.
[408] Hutten, Bonneau. Omit nec; MS.
[409] delitiis; MS.
[410] MS. bears postscript; Finis septimo Idus Decembris, Mccccli. Laus
Deo.
THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINE
AS GIVEN IN PART ONE, DIVISION XCVI, CHAPTERS XIII AND XIV OF GRATIAN’S
DECRETUM, OR HARMONY OF THE CANONS.
PART ONE. DIVISION XCVI.
[PALEA[411]
CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING THE SAME.[412]
The Emperor Constantine yielded his crown, and all his royal prerogatives
in the city of Rome, and in Italy, and in western parts to the Apostolic
[See]. For in the Acts of the Blessed Sylvester (which the Blessed Pope
Gelasius in the Council of the Seventy Bishops recounts as read by the
catholic, and in accordance with ancient usage many churches he says
follow this example) occurs the following:]
[PALEA.
C. XIV. CONCERNING THE SAME.
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