Acknowledgments
This book could not have been completed without the help of many people who, directly or indirectly, made it better. Enrica Cosar (Biblioteca e Archivio storico. Reale Collegio di Spagna) pointed us to a digital reproduction of the Bologna Manuscript for the Latin edition, and Valentina Cappellini and Tommaso Maria Rossi (Archivio Storico Diocesano di Lucca) provided us with a digital copy of the Lucca manuscript, which Jorge Ledo located and which has been used for the first time for a critical edition of Torquemada’s Contra Madianitas. Paola Tartakoff (Rutgers University) and Nathan Ron (University of Haifa) read the “Introduction” in an exemplary manner and provided valuable insights. Fernando González Muñoz (Universidade da Coruña) and Ignacio Javier García Pinilla (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) carefully read the Latin text and proposed corrections and amendments that were always appropriate. We are also grateful for the involvement in the project of the two anonymous peer-reviewers, who, through a meticulous reading of the text, offered several ways of improvement. To Carson Bay (Universität Bern—Institut für Judaistik) we owe an attentive and diligent revision of the volume in its final stage. Finally, our warmest thanks go to Emma de Looij, who has been with us, both as interlocutor and helper, every step of the way.
As trite as it may sound, in this case it could not be truer that, with such excellent company, any remaining mistakes—and typos—are our sole and exclusive responsibility.