Description

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division [Published Date: 1992]. Softcover, 183 pp. 2005 reprint. The reprint is of the 1922 edition of Valla's treatise and presents the Latin text and English translation of it and the forged donation document on facing pages. NO dust jacket. Illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light fading to spine. Light overall scuffing to covers as well. Binding tight. A few pages have very light underlining (just one or two words) and margin brackets. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] Valla's treatise effectively established for the world generally the proof of the falsity of the Donation. Moreover, for the first time, he used effectively the method of studying the usage of words in the variations of their meaning and application, and other devices of internal criticism which are the tools of historical criticism today. So, while Valla's little book may seem slight beside later masterpieces of investigation and beside systematic treatises in larger fields, it is none the less a landmark in the rise of a new science.