Acknowledgments
I would like to thank a number of people for their thoughtful reading of this book in draft: Gur Zak, William Caferro, Emily O’Brien, Aileen Astorga Feng, and in particular Elliott Simon, who carefully reviewed the entire work.
I am greatly indebted to Luc Deitz for his help with translations and proof-reading of the text and notes.
Other colleagues contributed their advice during the course of writing the book: Albert Ascoli, Luca Boschetto, Cécile Caby, Christopher Celenza, Brian Copenhaver, Charles Fantazzi, Riccardo Fubini, Kenneth Gouwens, John Headley, Nicoletta Marcelli, John Martin, Brian Maxson, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Marianne Pade, Denis Robichaud, Keith Sidwell, and Ronald Witt.
The editorial staff at Brill – Arjan van Dijk, Ivo Romein, and BSIH series editor Han van Ruler – provided help at critical stages of the writing and publishing process.
I would like to recognize the gracious assistance of the staff at the following libraries: the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, the Biblioteca Casanatense, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, the Biblioteca Laurenziana, the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Duke University Libraries, Guilford College Library and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi di Rinascimento. Guilford College supported my research with travel funding and study leaves.
Research for various sections of this book have appeared in the following publications: “Dead Souls: Leon Battista Alberti’s Anatomy of Humanism.” MLN 127.1 (2012): 108–23; “Humanism and Holiness: Leon Battista Alberti between Florence and Rome.” MLN 128 (2013): 1–19; “Humanism” entry in Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. M. Sgarbi (2017), and “Riddles of Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy” in The Routledge History of the Renaissance, ed. W. Caferro (2017). Each of these articles has been revised for this book.
T.K.
Greensboro, North Carolina
June 2020