Translated by Christopher B. Coleman, Yale University Press. 1922.

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 criticism-one of the most comprehensive, most alluring, and most baffling enterprises of the modern mind; Lorenzo Valla-the greatest of the professional Italian humanists; these lines of study have converged, accidentally perhaps, to call forth the following pages. Much of the subject matter which might properly form their introduction I have already treated more fully in an earlier work, and a brief statement will suffice here.

콘스탄티누스 황제의 기증장 – 유럽사에서 가장 유명한 위조 사건