Hilary Mantel Quote
Brother Luca Pacioli. It took him thirty years to write. The book is bound in deepest green with a tooled border of gold, and its pages are edged in gilt, so that it blazes in the light. Its clasps are studded with blackish garnets, smooth, translucent. I hardly dare open it, the boy says. Please. You will like it. It is Summa de Arithmetica. He unclasps it to find a woodcut of the author with a book before him, and a pair of compasses.
Hilary Mantel
Brother Luca Pacioli. It took him thirty years to write. The book is bound in deepest green with a tooled border of gold, and its pages are edged in gilt, so that it blazes in the light. Its clasps are studded with blackish garnets, smooth, translucent. I hardly dare open it, the boy says. Please. You will like it. It is Summa de Arithmetica. He unclasps it to find a woodcut of the author with a book before him, and a pair of compasses.