The Dusty Shelf of History

by Bryce Rogers (July 2012)

And still the beast, glutted with the glories of our past, proves insatiable.

made great personal sacrifices to wrest these works from the teeth of time. We must imagine a cultivated Italian—one who’d spent most of his life amidst the sybaritic pomp of Rome—riding through the Black forest, weather-beaten, weary, with mud caked on his cloak; his only companion, a translator; his hope of success, unknown.

And time still nibbles away.

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