The Treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922. Rare First edition. Generally available as reprint only. Bound in publisher's green cloth boards w/ gilt lettering on spine. Ex libris w/ call numbers and stamps. Including printing of the original text and corresponding translation into English. "The Donation of Constantine---the most famous forgery in European History; papal authority---since the triumph of Christianity the most perennial question of European society; historical crisicism---one of the most comprehensive, most alluring, and most baffling enterprises of the modern mind; Lorenzo Valla---the greatest of professional Italian humanists; these lines of study have converged , accidentally perhaps, to call forth the following pages.". 23.5 cm. 183 pp. b/w frontispiece