The papers presented in this volume in honour of Alfonso
Maierù cover some of the major topics of his research area.
The institutional and intellectual life of university training in
the Middle Ages, including the peculiar tradition of related works,
is the focus of the papers by Louis Jacques Bataillon, William J.
Courtenay, Jacqueline Hamesse, Zénon Kaluza, Loris Sturlese
and Olga Weijers. Three papers, by Jacopo Costa, Pasquale Porro and
Thomas Ricklin, deal with philosophical problems in Dante’s
Monarchia and Convivio. The complex interrelations between
logic and the other main aspects of medieval philosophy, with a
particular attention to theology, metaphysics and natural
philosophy, are the core of the other papers by Stefano Caroti,
Sten Ebbesen, Barbara Faes de Mottoni, Simo Knuuttila, Alain de
Libera, Olga Lizzini, Costantino Marmo, Claude Panaccio, Ivan
Bendwell, Irène Rosier-Catach, Lambert Marie de Rijk,
Leonardo Sileo, Luisa Valente, and Albert Zimmermann.
A larger number of friends and colleagues of Alfonso Maierù
than those who appear as contributors and editors of this volume
have warmly welcomed its publication. We could say, therefore, that
it is absolutely contingent that the Editors are: Stefano Caroti
(Università degli Studi di Parma), Ruedi Imbach
(Université de Paris-Sorbonne), Zénon Kaluza (Centre
d’Études des Religions du Livre, C.N.R.S), Loris
Sturlese (Università degli Studi di Lecce) and Giorgio
Stabile(Università degli Studi di Roma “La
Sapienza”).