On February 23, Professor Manfredo Tafuri, one of the greatest architectural historians and critics of the century, died at his home in Venice. The end was expected; and yet, his lucid stoicism and passionate determination to continue his studies, research, and teaching that inspired him were such that they ended up convincing his friends and students of the existence of an intimate safe-conduct that would perpetuate his inexhaustible thirst for knowledge, his highly cultured conversations, his crystalline and incisive humanism, his harsh judgments, and his abrupt and soothing smiles into a future without limits...[+]