Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry

Acknowledgments

a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s We express our sincere gratitude to the friends, colleagues, and institutions who in different ways have supported Dante’s “Commedia”: Theology as Poetry. In particular, we acknowledge the generous financial support received from the Burney Fund of the Faculty of Divinity and from the Department of Italian of the University of Cambridge for the conference on which the present volume is based. We are intensely grateful to the Faculty of Divinity and the Department of Italian for their continued support throughout the project as a whole. We are likewise grateful to Robinson College, Cambridge—especially the Warden, David Yates, Mary Fuller and the conference office, and the College staff—for providing a congenial environment for the project’s initial stages and for the conference. Special thanks are also due to Gillian Burrows, Ravit Capauner , Carlo Cogliati, Dee, Rosalind Paul, and Alessia Ronchetti for their invaluable help in the organization and running of the conference, Vital impetus for the present volume was provided both by the papers presented at the conference and by the formal and informal conversations that took place throughout the conference. We are immensely grateful to all those who took part and who contributed to the creation of an illuminating setting for discussion. We also give warm thanks to Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Christian Moevs, and the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame for accepting this volume in the Devers Series in Dante Studies; and to Barbara Hanrahan and the staff at the University of Notre Dame Press for their generous and professional support throughout the publication process. Preparation of this volume would not have been possible without the support of Churchill College, Cambridge, the Department of Italian, University of Leeds, or the College of Arts and Letters and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, nor without the advice of Zygmunt Barański, Claire Honess, Alan O’Leary, and Janet Martin Soskice. It would also not have been possible without the kindness and patience of Florencia Cano and Victoria Treherne. ix x Acknowledgments Our greatest debt is owed to Robin Kirkpatrick and Denys Turner. Their friendship and guidance have been unfailing throughout this project , and they continue to provide constant insight and inspiration. Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne ...