Status Updates From Albrecht Dürer: A Biography

"Without [Willibald] Pirckheimer's friendship, it has been said, there would probably have been a different Albrecht Dürer, for Pirckheimer bore much of the responsibility for having exposed the artist to the literature and the ideals ofthe Italian Renaissance, as well as to those of the ancient world." (p. 48)

So far, this has been a terribly dry read, but since we have only reached his journeyman years, where information is as scarce as for his childhood, I’ll stay with it a bit further at least. If the desert dryness continues I know I’ll be tempted, as one notoriously is in the desert, to seek out more luscious groves..