Commedia: A Digital Edition ed. by Prue Shaw (review)

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the catalog, Trinita Kennedy has done an outstanding job of balancing rigorous scholarship on a specialized topic with accessibility and appeal to nonspecialist audiences. The catalog’s outstanding essays are consistent in quality of writing and scope of inquiry, the fruit of a careful editor’s work as well as the highlevel research of the contributors. It is a shame that the emergence of the omicron variant in the fall of 2021 diminished the number of visitors to Medieval Bologna and forced a related symposium, the Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference, online. Nonetheless, Trinita Kennedy and the Frist are to be commended for mounting this extraordinary exhibition despite these singular challenges and for taking on a highly specialized topic in a smaller city like Nashville. They wisely produced a wonderful catalog that will ensure the exhibition’s afterlife, bringing scholarship on medieval Bologna to new audiences in the United States and elsewhere.