Giorgio Vasari
Italian Humanists (Six Tuscan Poets), 1554
Oil on panel
“I am unable to satisfy my thirst for books. And I perhaps own more of them than I ought; but just as in certain other things, so does it happen with books: success in searching for them is a stimulus to greed… Books please inwardly; they speak with us, advise us and join us together with a certain living and penetrating intimacy, nor does this instill only itself into its readers, but it conveys the names and desire for others.”
(Francesco Petrarch, Letters on Familiar Matters III. 18)
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