ONLY in retrospect is it possible to realize how much is owed
to so many for the completion of even so modest a work
as the present. In appreciation of generous aid and courtesy
acknowledgment is made to the agencies of the Fulbright Act both
in the United States and in Italy; to the Italian Institute for Historical
Studies in Naples and especially to its founder and president Senator
Benedetto Croce, for access to the unique collection of Vichiana
housed there; to the eminent Vichian scholar, Fausto Nicolini; to
the Very Rev. Martin C. D'Arcy, S.J., of Mount St., London, for
encouragement in the most difficult stage of the work; to the Com-
mittee on Publications of the University of Notre Dame for a partial
subvention toward publication and finally to the many friends both
in the United States and in Italy who by generous acts have in many
ways made the work lighter, among whom it is impossible to pass
unnamed the Very Rev. Christopher O'Toole, C.S.C., of New
York City, Professor Raffaello Franchini of the college of the
Nunziatella in Naples, Dr. Eduardo Sturchio of Villa Sturchio, S.
Giorgio a Cremano, the Rev. Leo R. Ward, C.S.C., and Professor
Paul E. McLane of the University of Notre Dame.

A. ROBERT CAPONIGRI

Capri
October 1932

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