A treatyse of the donation or gyfte and endowme[n]t of possessyons, gyuen and graunted vnto Syluester pope of Rhome, by Constantyne emperour of Rome [and] what truth is in the same grau[n] thou mayst se, and rede ye iugement of certayne great lerned men, whose names on the other page of this leafe done appere.
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- A treatyse of the donation or gyfte and endowme[n]t of possessyons, gyuen and graunted vnto Syluester pope of Rhome, by Constantyne emperour of Rome [and] what truth is in the same grau[n] thou mayst se, and rede ye iugement of certayne great lerned men, whose names on the other page of this leafe done appere.
- Author
- Valla, Lorenzo, 1406-1457.
- Publication
- [Imprynted at London :: By Thomas Godfray [for William Marshall,
- 1534]]
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- Subject terms
- Constitutum Constantini -- Early works to 1800.
- Donation of Constantine -- Early works to 1800.
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"A treatyse of the donation or gyfte and endowme[n]t of possessyons, gyuen and graunted vnto Syluester pope of Rhome, by Constantyne emperour of Rome [and] what truth is in the same grau[n] thou mayst se, and rede ye iugement of certayne great lerned men, whose names on the other page of this leafe done appere." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69138.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- table of contents
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treatise
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section
- ¶ The preface or {pro}heme of Bartholome we Pycern of the hyghe mountayne / vnto Pope Iulyus the se∣conde / vpon the priuylege / called the gyfte or graunt of the emperoure Constantyne / whiche priuylege the sayd Bartholomewe affyrmeth with fast asseueraty∣on hymselfe to haue trāslated out of greke into laten.
- ¶The decree imperiall written & gyuen to the wor∣shypfull and holy Catholyke and apostolycall church of Rome / by blessed Constantyne / the fyrste amonge the emperours that became Christen.
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section
- ❧ The preface of Vdalrike Hutten / vpon the lytell booke made by Laurence Valla / agaynst the fayned and falsely forged donation or gyfte of Constantyne / vnto pope Leo the tenth of that name.
- ¶The reuerende father Iherome Pan / Cathalane chanon of Barcinon / doctor of both the lawes / & chā¦berlayn to Pope Alexandre the .vi. A man very wor¦thy credēce / & to be beleued: writeth thus as herafter foloweth / in his boke / whiche they call cōmenly / the Practice of the popes Chauncery.
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¶ The delamation of Lau. Valla / a noble man & of the senatours of blode of Rome / against the vntruly for¦ged & falsely beleued donation or gifte of Cōstātyne.
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¶ The first {per}te of this oration / in which thautor she¦weth this entēt & the order / after which he wyll {pro}cede in this worke / & also that neither Constātyne of lyke lyhed was wyllyng / or coude be suffred to gyue / nei∣ther Syluester was wyllyng / or myght laufully re∣ceyue the thynges mencioned in the donation.
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¶The oratyon of Constantines sonnes / and of his kynsfolke and frendes / made vnto him full of lamen∣table complaynte / for that he gothe about without /
ye / and contrary to their deseruynge so to take frome them their inheritaunce. &c. -
¶ The oration of y
e senatours & the people of Rome made to Cōstātine / in which they nat only do shewe that Constantine hath no right nor auctorite to gyue the ēpier from him: but also that they wyll in no wise suffre it to be done / & that for many cōsyderatiōs / but raither flee both the receyuer / & him also the gyuer. - ¶ The oration of Siluester to Cōstantine / in whi¦che he sheweth it to be neither laufull / neither profy∣table for him / to receyue Constātines offre / although it were so as it is nat / that Constantine might right¦fully / & without any impediment or offending of any persone / giue suche thinges as he offred from himself and his children.
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¶The oratyon of Constantines sonnes / and of his kynsfolke and frendes / made vnto him full of lamen∣table complaynte / for that he gothe about without /
- ¶ The seconde princypall parte of this oration / in whiche the author sheweth / that / although both Con¦stantine might haue ben suffred / and had ben willing to make this gyfte / and Siluester also willyng to ac¦cepte it (the contrary wherof hath ben afore proued) yet dyd neuer Constātine delyuer possessyō to Silue¦ster / but the same thinges remayned alwayes styll in the handes and gouernaūce of themperours. &c.
- ¶The thyrde princypall parte of this oration / in which the author sheweth / that Constantine was be∣come Christen afore that Siluester was pope / & that those gyftes whiche Constātine gaue: were gyuen to the pope nexte after Siluester / which same also were but meane or small thinges / & no more than suffycient to the popes sustentation.
- ¶ The fourth prīcipall {per}te of this oration / in which the author sheweth it to be vntruly sayde / that the co∣pye or example of this donation is founde in the de∣crees / or elles taken out of the historie of saynt Syl∣uester / and also declareth what folysshe / what impos¦syble / what barbarous / and what repugnaūt & con∣trary thīges / with other vnresonablenes / is cōtayned in the sayde copie. & besydes this he maketh mention of the fayned or friuolouse donation of certayn other emperours. And laste of al he sheweth / that in case it were / so that Syluester or any other pope had at any tyme possessed these thīges: yet being ones put out of possessyō / & so long cōtinuīg dispossessed as they haue done: they cā nat now after so long space of tyme clay¦me thē agayn / neither by the lawe of god nor man. &c.
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¶ The fy
th prīcipall parte & the last of this worke / whiche it is shewed / y t the pope can nat make any p̄∣scriptionn those thīges which he possesseth: howe so ouer longe tyme he hath had them in his possessyon.
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¶ The first {per}te of this oration / in which thautor she¦weth this entēt & the order / after which he wyll {pro}cede in this worke / & also that neither Constātyne of lyke lyhed was wyllyng / or coude be suffred to gyue / nei∣ther Syluester was wyllyng / or myght laufully re∣ceyue the thynges mencioned in the donation.
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¶ The sentence & mynde of Nicholas of Cusa / car¦dinall by the tytle of saynt Peter ad vincula: concer∣nyng y
e donation of Constātine / which sentēce he wro¦te to the councell assēbled at Basile in the thirde boke ye secōd cha. of the catholyke concordaūce & agremēt. -
¶ Antonine y
e archebisshoppe of Florence / saith / as here foloweth: in ye eyghte tytle / the secōde chapitour the eyghte paragraffe / of the fyrst parte historiall.
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- colophon