The cafeteria of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Paris and Rome, Córdoba
and Los Angeles, the Villa Vigoni on the Lago di Como, Munich and Erfurt offered
places to discuss the book as a whole or individual chapters. I hope that it will find
its way back to these places and many others.
Erfurt, Terminalibus anno Domini MMVII
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