Dante e la Donazione di Costantino

Prina, Marco Meazza

doi:10.18130/v3q07g

DOI: 10.18130/v3q07g

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Dante e la Donazione di Costantino

Marco Meazza Prina

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“…241-57. ) 10 For scholarship on the Constitutum Constantini and its origins see Fuhrmann (1968); Camporeale (2002); Vian (2004); Fried (2007); Macchioro (2017).…”

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“…12 Numerous studies have been dedicated to the philological work of Lorenzo Valla, and its methodological and historiographical implications. (See Setz 1976;Antoniazzi 1985;Fubini 1996;Regoliosi 2009;Pepe 1992;Delph 1996;Camporeale 2002;Vian 2004;Celenza 2005). 13 Blondel wrote his work Pseudo-Isidorus et Turrianus vapulantes, published in Geneva in 1628, against the Jesuit Francesco Turriano, who had tried to support the tradition of the Donation by examining the corpus of literature attributed to Isidore.…”

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A New History of Christian Empire: Excavating Pope Sylvester’s Oratory, 1636

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This article examines how antiquarians in Rome used archaeological evidence—a site excavated from under the church of San Martino in Monti in 1636—to argue that Pope Sylvester (314–335) exercised spiritual and temporal authority over the Roman Empire. The document which had formed the bedrock of papal sovereignty, the Donation of Constantine, was shown to be a forgery in the early modern period. Protestant reformers pointed to the document’s contradictions to dismantle the Catholic Church’s claims that its preeminence originated in the privileges bestowed on Sylvester by the Emperor Constantine. I use archival materials and a history of the site published in 1639 to describe how antiquarians claimed that they found the house church of Sylvester, which he converted into a church after Constantine’s baptism and then used to host a Roman Council in 324 (before Nicaea). I offer a new perspective on Catholic confessional historiography by observing how antiquarians used material evidence to provide a foundation for early papal power in the Roman Empire, thereby bypassing the need for spurious documents such as the Donation. This new tradition, which lives on today despite modern archaeological critiques, illustrates the malleability of Catholic epistemologies and historiography in the wake of textual criticism.

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“…241-57. ) 10 For scholarship on the Constitutum Constantini and its origins see Fuhrmann (1968); Camporeale (2002); Vian (2004); Fried (2007); Macchioro (2017).…”

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