Note 519 — THE DISCOURSE OF LORENZO VALLA ON THE FORGERY OF THE ALLEGED DONATION OF CONSTANTINE (continued 2)

This clause, though not in the MS. or Hutten, seems necessary to the sense of the following clause, so I have translated it from Bonneau’s text. In the Vita Silvestri we are told that the pagan priests ordered Constantine to bathe in infants’ blood in order to cure himself of leprosy. Cf. Coleman, Constantine the Great, etc., p. 162.