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[email protected] 2000 Telephone: +39-055-603-251 / Fax: +39-055-603-383 s we begin another academic year Mann, ed.), the completion of that Ahere at I Tatti, I have two exciting Letter From Florence manuscript has been unexpectedly and announcements to make concerning P unavoidably delayed, and it will now new ventures which I’m sure will be of not appear until the following year. the greatest interest to all Fellows, Those volumes scheduled to appear in whether current or past. Both the spring of 2001 are are unprecedented undertakings Boccaccio’s Famous Women for us, and both have required a (Virginia Brown, ed. considerable expenditure of [VIT’76]), the first volume of time and effort. Yet I’m per- Ficino’s Platonic Theology suaded that each will have a sig- (Michael Allen & James nificant, long-term usefulness, Hankins, eds.), and volume not only for our Fellows but for one of Bruni’s Florentine Renaissance scholarship gener- History (James Hankins, ed.). ally. Other volumes to follow soon The first is the I Tatti thereafter include Landino’s Renaissance Library, a publica- Camaldulensian Disputations tion venture scheduled to be (Jill Kraye, ed.), Raphael launched this coming spring Brandolini’s Republics and under the editorship of Kingdoms Compared (Shayne Professor James Hankins Mitchell, ed.), Poggio’s Letters (VIT’89,’93). Let me quote (Martin Davies, ed.), a collec- from his prospectus, which admirably As everyone teaching the tion of humanist educational treatises defines our aims: "The purpose of the Renaissance knows, a large number of edited by Craig Kallendorf, Cardano’s I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL) is to major works written in Latin or Greek Autobiography (Thomas Cerbu [VIT’96] make available to a broad readership the are hard to come by.