A native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, ERNEST L. FORTIN, A.A., received the B.A. from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1946; the Licentiate in Theology from the Agelicum in Rome in 1950; and the Doctorate in Letters from the Sorbonne in 1955. He has also done post-doctoral work at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris and the University of Chicago. He taught at Assumption College from 1955 to 1970 and was cofounder of its Ecumenical Institute. He was a part-time visiting professor of philosophy at Laval University in Quebec from 1955 to 1972. Until his retirement in 1997 he taught theology and political theory at Boston College, where he was codirector of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion. He has lectured widely to scholarly audiences both in America and in Europe. He is a coeditor with Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi, of Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook. His articles, review articles, and book reviews have appeared in a wide variety of professional journals and symposia. Many of these have been published in three volumes of his collected essays edited by J. Brian Benestad.
MARC A. LEPAIN is professor of theology and director of the Ecumenical Institute of Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he has been teaching since 1971. A native of Southbridge, Massachusetts, he received the B.A. from Assumption College in 1965, the M.A. in French from University of Pennsylvania in 1967, and the Ph.D. in theology from Fordham University in 1978. He is the author of an essay on Dante’s Greyhound in the Festschrift in honor of Ernest L. Fortin, Gladly to Learn, Gladly to Teach. His previous translations include The City of Man by Pierre Manent.