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PREFACE
This is my third volume in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. It contains some new topics for me: Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Giovanni Gatti, OP, and Italian Scholasticism. It also represents another installment in what has now become thirty years of work on several other interests: Lorenzo Valla, Theodore Gaza, the Plato-Aristotle controversy, and Greek émigrés to Renaissance Italy. All these articles must be judged on their own merits. Nonetheless, what I noted in the preface to my first Variorum volume in 1994 remains true for this one, namely, that one way or another they have come out of the interests 1 developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s while writing my dissertation on George of Trebizond, the one subject about whom I have yet to write an article. But George makes a conspicuous appearance in several articles in the volume and is a bit player in a few others.
So, willy nilly, this third volume finds me plowing the same old furrows. My only defense is that I love what I am doing and plan to keep on doing it until the Good Lord calls me away. As usual, my debts are many. Every one of the articles save two ("The Averroism of John Argyropoulos" and "Aristotelians, Platonists, and the Missing Ockhamists") reflects an invitation by a conference organizer or volume editor. Hence, I wish first of all to thank Michael J.B. Allen, Marco Bertozzi, Concetta Bianca, Marcello Fantoni, Vincenzo Fera, Giacomo Ferraú, Anthony Grafton, Lucia Rosa Gualdo, Jill Kraye, Riccardo Maisano, Anthony Molho, Marianne Pade, Valery Rees, Antonio Rollo, Nancy Siraisi, M.W.F. Stone, Martin Thurner, and Fosca Mariani Zini, all of whom, either directly or indirectly, had a hand in the invitations which resulted in these articles.
In several instances, the invitation became the start of a rewarding friend- ship and in others the confirmation of a friendship of now long standing. I owe a further debt of thanks to many of the aforementioned for their scholarly help in the preparation of the articles. But others also must be included in this category: Ernesto Berti, Martin Davies, Arthur Field, Riccardo Fubini, Paul Grendler, Edward P. Mahoney, Angelo Mazzocco, Stefano Perfetti, Anna Pontani, Mariangela Regolios, Antonio Rigo, Silvia Rizzo, David Rutherford, Chris Schabel, and Viktor Tiftixoglu. A simple alphabetical listing does little to reveal the myriad ways these scholars have helped and influenced me in writing and correcting these articles, but I take satisfaction in at least acknowledging my debt to them. Over the years I have been fortunate enough to receive support from various institutions.
Critical specifically to the articles in this volume were the travel grants I received from The University at Albany, State University of New York, in 1998, 2001, and 2002 and from the American Philosophical Society in 1999. To both institutions I express my sincere gratitude. As in the other Variorum volumes, I have taken the opportunity to correct some minor typographical errors and to add an appendix of Addenda/Corrigenda in addition to indices of manuscripts and names. Albany, New York March 2004
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