Note *211 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
It is to Vasari we owe the statement that Piero was blind in 1458, being then sixty years old (cf. Vasari, Vite, vol. II., p. 500). This appears to be another of Vasari's mistakes. Fra Luca, who records so many facts concerning his master, is silent as to his blindness, while if dates are looked into they will easily disprove the statement. Cf. W.G. Waters, Piero della Francesca (London, 1901), p. 93.