review are equally the descendants both of the great masters presented here, and of past and present generations of Barcelona-based Romanists, medievalists and classicists, who include Marti de Riquer, Joan Bastardas, Josep Alsina and Miquel Dolq.6 To give but three examples, Carles Miralles's research on Homer, Josep Lluis Vidal's studies on Virgil and the Virgilian reception, and Pere Quetglas's work for the Glossarium Mediae Latinitatis Cataloniae mirror twentieth-century interest in classical epic and in medieval Catalan texts.7 As well as crossing academic boundaries, Del Romanticisme al Noucentisme testifies to a rich scholarly tradition in classical and Catalan studies at Barcelona. Judging by the papers in this volume, the one-day conference at the University of Barcelona when they were read and discussed must have been a stimulating gathering, plentiful in ideas and enthusiasm. Those of us unable to attend at the time can now thank the editors for their