Donation of Constantine

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The Donation of Constantine is a famous forged medieval document that purported to grant the pope vast temporal authority over the Western Roman Empire, later exposed as inauthentic by Renaissance humanists.

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Donation of Constantine (document) ×1

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Lorenzo Valla → criticized → Donation of Constantine →

imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800 → relatedTo → Donation of Constantine →

this entity surface form: "Donation of Constantine (document)"