De Civitate Dei (full title: De Civitate Dei contra Paganos, translated in English as The City of God Against the Pagans) is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. — Folio 1r from a manuscript of Augustine’s, City of God (De Civitate Dei) (New York Public Library, Spencer Collection MS 30) from 1470.