Stranger Songs

Illumination from a Book of Hours, use of Paris, ms. Beinecke MS 662, f. 21r, between 1450 and 1475, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

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Your virtual eye on illuminated manuscripts, rare books, and the stories behind them.
By Franco Cosimo Panini Editore.

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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucio

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is a war against time, for it brings back to life deeds and heroes of the past.

Alessandro Manzoni

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one.

Steven Moffat

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Michael Crichton

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Winston S. Churchill