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1. Humanist

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   Pioneering Humanists
   , such as Lorenzo Valla
   , developed sophisticated methods of internal textual criticism
   , analyzing anachronisms

2. Humanist

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   , style, and rhetorical patterns
   to date and authenticate documents. This led to the outright debunking of forged documents, most famously the *Donation of Constantine
   *, which Valla
   proved was not written by the Emperor Constantine
   but likely centuries later due to its clumsy deployment of post-Classical

3. Renaissance Humanism

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   Core Tenets and the Studia Humanitatis
   The foundational principle of Humanism was ad fontes ("to the sources"). This mandate required scholars to bypass centuries of commentary and translation errors—especially those stemming from corrupted Latin Vulgate texts or summaries by Medieval Scholastics—to engage directly with the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts. This philological rigor led to unp…