Governance and Grievance: Habsburg Policy and Italian Tyrol in the Eighteenth Century

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS So many people in so many places contributed their time, knowledge, and efforts to the successful conclusion of this study that to mention them all would require another essay. But some are owed special thanks. In Rovereto to Dr. Ferruccio Trentini, President of the Academy of the Agiati; to the entire staff of the Biblioteca Civica Girolamo Tartarotti, especially to its late director, Dr. Pio Chiusole, and to Maria Rosa laRovere who worked so hard to facilitate access to the library's extremely rich manu' script and book.collection from the eighteenth century. In Trento to Dr. Annamaria Paissan Schlechter, director of the Biblioteca Comunale di Trento, to the library's entire staff, and especially to Luigi Compasso, whose knowledge of English acquired at a NATO naval base expedited the enor, mous amount of research done in this library. In Innsbruck to the staffs of the Tiroler Landesarchiv and the library of the Landesmuseum Ferdinan' deum, especially Dr. Wolfram Wieser of the latter. To the legion of historians and archivists in Vienna: at the library and Historisches Institut of the University of Vienna, the Nationalbibliothek, the Kriegsarchiv, the Allgemeinesverwaltungsarchiv, the Hofkammerarchiv, and especially the greatest of thanks, gratitude, and appreciation to every' one at the Hau,s" Hof, und Staatsarchiv, where so much of the original work in this study was documented. To the many colleagues and friends in Vienna for their friendship, encouragement, and assistance in what was for only a very short time a strange city; especially to Dr. Adam Wandruszka of the University of Vienna; to Drs. Moritz and Eva Csciky, of the same Uni, .versity; to Dr. Grete Klingenstein,Walter at the University of Graz; and to Dr. Waltraud Heindl at the Osterreichisches Ost, und Siidosteuropa Institut. To the many historians in New York City who assisted me: to Dr. Edith Link of Hunter College for sharing her knowledge and expertise in Habs' burg history; to Professor Istvan Deak of Columbia University, who as my doctoral adviser first encouraged me in this research; to Professor Marc Raeff, also of Columbia, for his interest and support as he read, reread, and again reread the manuscript; and to Professor Harold Segel, director of Columbia's Institute on East Central Europe, for his advice and for making available the facilities of his institute. ix x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A note of particular thanks to Professor Karl Roider of Louisiana State University and Professor Charles Ingrao of Purdue University, for their long~standingencouragement, advice, and friendship begun during the Ful~ bright year in Vienna's archives. A special thanks to the libraries of Columbia University-especially to the staffs of the reference desk and the Interlibrary Loan office in Butler Library-for their perseverence in helping track down obscure citations and in obtaining almost half the published works cited here plus microfilm of some unpublished sources. Finally, my appreciation to the Fulbright-Hays Commission for the fellowship that made the original research in Vienna possible and to the Institute on East Central Europe for subsequent travel funds for follow~up research. To all these people and organizations and to the many more whom I regrettably cannot name here, thank you for helping make this work pos~ sible and-equally as important-enjoyable to research and write. Miriam J. Levy JULY 1987 ...