Acknowledgements
Numerous mentors, colleagues, students and friends have contributed to making this work possible. A few of them are named in the following pages.
It is difficult to identify a definitive starting point for the research that led to this volume, but one crucial stage was the introduction to Neo‐Latin studies that I was fortunate enough to receive nearly three decades ago at the University of Kentucky, from Terence Tunberg and his colleagues. Toward the end of the research, early in the 2020s, I was again blessed to experience the generous hospitality given at the Vivarium Novum Academy near Rome, a place where European humanism lives and breathes. To all the learned and kind scholars who have helped me in between the two places and beyond, including the amazing reviewers and editors for this series, I wish to express my utmost gratitude.
I also wish to thank the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (research grant # 15K02385, 19K00503, 21H00517, 22K00466) and Otsuma Women’s University for their generous financial and professional support that made my research possible.