There are several people I would like to thank for their aid and encouragement as I worked on this project: John Crosby, Claude Romano, J. J. Sanford, and Paul Symington for helpful comments on the introduction; Jamie Kropka for his help preparing a first draft translation of chapter 1; Karl Hefty for sharing with me his translation of chapter 4; and Christina M. Gschwandtner for a careful reading of a complete draft of the translation. I also wish to express special thanks to the University of Virginia Press’s anonymous reader, who offered many, many crucial suggestions for improvements to the entire translation. All mistakes that remain, of course, I acknowledge as mine. I dedicate this work to the memory of my mother-in-law, Judith Holm, † November 1, 2010.