[Footnote 13: Wordsworth's Translation,]

[Footnote 14: "Literary Remains of Albrecht Duerer," p. 176.]




PART II

DUeRER'S LIFE IN RELATION TO THE TIMES IN WHICH HE LIVED

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CHAPTER I

DUeRER'S ORIGIN, YOUTH AND EDUCATION


I

Who was Duerer? He has told us himself very simply, and more fully than
men of his type generally do; for he was not, like Montaigne, one whose
chief study was himself. Yet, though he has done this, it is not easy
for us to fully understand him. It is perhaps impossible to place
oneself in the centre of that horizon which was of necessity his and
belonged to his day, a vast circle from which men could no more escape
than we from ours; this cage of iron ignorance in which every human soul