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To thank all who have helped in significant ways would be a long and pleasant task but would range too widely, I fear, to be meaningful for the reader. Nonetheless, I would like to express my gratitude to those who have been of help intentionally— and often unintentionally or at least innocently—and to single out a few who have been especially important. As this book at times is rather untraditional, let me begin by acknowledging the fine old woman herself—Venice.
Lovely and infuriating, transcendent in the wispy fogs of an echoing November morning, mundane in her summer dress of sharp-elbowed tourists and hucksters, she is still today an elegant lesson in survival and the gritty grace of old age. In addition, I would like to thank her people, especially her students of all kinds, her lovers, and her barkeepers. The Venetian days of this book have been a rich texture of growth, happiness, and sense of accomplishment.
But those Venetian days and this project would not have been possible without the generous support of the Delmas Foundation, the Taft Foundation, the University of Cincinnati Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton provided an idyllic setting for writing the book.
