Acknowledgments
As general editor of the volume, I have a new appreciation for the legions of (chiefly anonymous) Genoese archivists and administrators who assembled and organized centuries of communal documents. Many thanks, therefore, are due to the volume’s contributors, whose enthusiasm, punctuality, and willingness to help negated all the horror stories I’d heard about the challenges of editing a collected volume; I am especially grateful for the advice and learned judgment of Paola Guglielmotti and Valeria Polonio throughout the project. Thanks are also due to Antonio Musarra for gallant assistance in an hour of need; to George Gorse and Rebecca Müller for their assistance with images; and to Carlo Taviani, for sharing his
At Brill, I would like to thank Julian Deahl, who first gave me the idea for this project, and Kate Hammond and Marcella Mulder, who shepherded the volume through the publication process. Administrators at New College of Florida were very supportive of my interest in
As always, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my husband, Thomas McCarthy, for his unfailing support, and for being “full of opinions.” This book is dedicated to Tancred and Beatrice, whose youngest years enfolded my work on this Companion.
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