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Acknowledgments
Sarah McPhee
Description: Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican
Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican
~~MANY PEOPLE and many institutions have contributed to this book. I would like first to thank three professors at Columbia University. My debt to them is enormous. Joseph Connors suggested the topic and directed the dissertation with which this book began. His example, his friendship, and his conversation have enriched the...
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Sarah McPhee
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Copyright© 2002 by Yale University
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Acknowledgments
MANY PEOPLE and many institutions have contributed to this book. I would like first to thank three professors at Columbia University. My debt to them is enormous. Joseph Connors suggested the topic and directed the dissertation with which this book began. His example, his friendship, and his conversation have enriched the project over many years. Hilary Ballon has been an expert guide, a discerning critic, and a rare friend. The late Alfred Frazer, who taught by stern example, has continued to preside in memory.
I have enjoyed the conversation, insights, and advice of many friends and colleagues over the years. My special thanks to James Ackerman, Mirka Benes, David Freedberg, George Goldner, Hellmut Hager, Tod Marder, Henry Millon, Laurie Nussdorfer, Linda Pellecchia, Louise Rice, David Stone, and Stephen Tobriner.
Mark Bauerlein, Patrizia Cavazzini, Sible De Blauuw, Sigrid Goldiner, Marc Gotlieb, Lawrence Jenkens, Irving Lavin, Ornella Francisci Osti, John Pinto, Alexander Stille, Claudia Swan, and Patricia Waddy read all or part of the manuscript, improving it in countless ways.
Ornella Francisci Osti and Giuliana Carugati kindly checked the translations. Christian Zapatka, Nigel Ryan, Roberto Einaudi, and Teddy Cruz made drawings or gave architectural advice. Steven Brooke took the photographs of St. Peter’s. Don Sandro Corradini helped decipher documents and shared his exceptional knowledge of the Roman archives.
Most of the research for this book was carried out during three glorious years in Rome, where I enjoyed the hospitality and community of the American Academy. I have also enjoyed the generous support of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where I held a Chester Dale Fellowship and a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Research Council of Emory University. I am deeply obliged to the staffs of the libraries and archives where I have worked, both in the United States and in Rome: the Avery Library at Columbia University, the Woodruff Library at Emory University, the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, the Archivio della Reverenda Fabbrica, the Archivio di Stato, the Archivio Doria Pamphili, the Archivio del Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni, the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emmanuele, and the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I am also pleased to acknowledge the subventions I received from Emory University, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Millard Meiss Publication Fund of the College Art Association to help defray the costs of producing the book.
At Yale University Press my editor, Patricia Fidler, has been unflagging in her support of the project and exemplary in her skillful handling of the manuscript in its final stages. On the site of St. Peter’s I would like to single out Alberto Borzoni, whose generosity in sharing his memories of a lifetime spent on the site of St. Peter’s, as the last of a dynasty of bell keepers, taught me much about the nature of the place and the importance of the collective life of the institution.
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