vrijdag 22 mei 2020

Another review of the Italian translation of my book

It's great to see several reviews appearing of the Italian translation of my former book "A New History of the Humanities".  This one is written by Gilberto Corbellini for the Almanacco della Scienza.

"In primo luogo, andrebbe ricordato che non furono solo i "nuovi scienziati" come Keplero o Galileo o filosofi come Francesco Bacone a silurare la visione del mondo cristiano-aristotelico. Tutto iniziò nel 1440, quando il filologo italiano Lorenzo Valla dimostrò che il Constitutum Constantini - la Donazione di Costantino, usata dalla Chiesa Cattolica per dare legittimazione al possesso dell'Impero Romano d'Occidente - era un falso."

["First, it should be remembered that it was not only "new scientists" like Kepler or Galileo or philosophers like Francis Bacon who torpedoed the Christian-Aristotelian worldview. It all began in 1440, when the Italian philologist Lorenzo Valla proved that the Donatio Constantini - the Donation of Constantine, used by the Catholic Church to give legitimacy to the possession of the Western Roman Empire - was a fake."]

Click here for the full review.

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