No one may doubt that there are very few, and even unpublished the news of all those Artists, who have ennobled the Nation through their Works, when the Vasaris, Rafaeis Sopranes, Rossis, Leonardos da Vinci, and Palominos, occupied themselves in leaving a precious monument to posteriority, there has been among us the most ungrateful silence, not perpetuating the memory of many Portuguese artists in them engraved.""