Practice question · Select all that apply
Which of Valla’s findings condemned the Donation of Constantine?
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- The findings concerned language, vocabulary and silence.
- All of them were available without any laboratory.
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- B. It names offices, garments, and honours that did not exist in 315
- C. The Latin is eighth-century, not fourth-century
- D. No contemporary source mentions the transfer at all
Why
Language, vocabulary, and silence, all internal, all available at a desk in 1440. Radiocarbon dating is five centuries away and would have been superfluous: the document had already confessed.
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