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C. Jean Campbell

The Game of Courting and the Art of the Commune of San Gimignano, 1290–1320

~THIS PROJECT HAD ITS BEGINNINGS as a doctoral dissertation. Many members of the extended community of professors, students, and staff of the Department of the History of Art at the Johns Hopkins University contributed to its conception. Among those I must name is Hans Belting, who first suggested to me my wonderful topic. To Charles Dempsey, who guided my...

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Acknowledgments

This project had its beginnings as a doctoral dissertation. Many members of the extended community of professors, students, and staff of the Department of the History of Art at the Johns Hopkins University contributed to its conception. Among those I must name is Hans Belting, who first suggested to me my wonderful topic. To Charles Dempsey, who guided my dissertation through its completion and continued to provide encouragement and a sympathetic ear as the present work took shape, my debt is obvious and my appreciation profound.

Many scholars generously offered me insights, criticisms, guidance, and technical knowledge at various stages in my research and writing. For sharing with me their wisdom and experience, I would sincerely like to thank Alessandro Bagnoli, John W. Baldwin, Elizabeth Cropper, Gaudenz Freuler, Alessandra Galizzi, Anne D. Hedeman, Cathleen Hoeniger, Gordon Moran, and John Najemy. I am grateful also to Andrea Bayer and Deborah Krohn for offering me a public forum in which to resolve some of the central issues of my thesis. John Paoletti, Jonathan Riess, and Carl Strehlke helped shape the present work in ways that I hope they will recognize. Their thoughtful comments and careful criticisms of my manuscript were greatly appreciated. Many thanks to Timothy Wardell, who shepherded my work through the first stages of the publication process at the Princeton University Press, and to Patricia Fidler, Elizabeth Johnson, Sharon Herson, and the editorial staff, for seeing it through to completion.

I am obliged to the various institutions that made their resources available to me. These include the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Soprintendenza per i Beni artistici e storici in Siena. I would also single out for recognition the direction and staff of the Villa Spelman of The Johns Hopkins University in Florence, and particularly Dorothee Puccini, who, in countless ways, helped smooth the transition to life and research in Italy. I must especially thank Giuseppe Picone and the staff of the Biblioteca Comunale of San Gimignano for providing such an agreeable atmosphere for research and study. Sincere thanks also to Patrizia La Porta, director of the Museo Civico, to the Commune of San Gimignano, and to all the other institutions that graciously provided photographs and permissions to reproduce the images that illustrate this book.

Initial work on this project was supported by doctoral fellowships from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Villa Spelman of The Johns Hopkins University. The reworking of my thesis into the present book was made possible by a postdoctoral fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities from the J. Paul Getty Foundation and by a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

I would finally like to acknowledge the intangible but vital contributions of all those special colleagues, friends, and students, in North America and abroad, who, over the past five years, have lent me both intellectual and moral support. Since their names are too numerous to list here, I can only hope they will recognize themselves in this sentiment. To my own beloved family, and to my adopted family in Florence—Katie, Riccardo, Marco, and Luca—thanks for keeping me in touch with the world. To my husband, who, by his loving indulgence and sheltering care, made the completion of this book possible, I am most deeply grateful.

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