A legend of Classical times says that, so strong is the eye of the lion, that its sight does not die with the owner. And here by the lion's eye, we see prefigured the art of the true maker of images: the painter whose vision remains long after he is dead.

Leon Battista Alberti, fragment, in the rough drafts of De Pictura ('On Painting');no included in published version AD 1435

And in the Duke's library, while my sight remained keen enough, I ornamented frontispieces for those books of his that were translations of the flood of knowledge to come to Europa after Alexandria fell, while the effect of those printed volumes began to change the world.

Please be careful when combining. This is the UK omnibus edition of Illario.