On May 16, 1492 in Venice, Matteo Capcasa published the first illustrated edition of the Italian translation of Jacobus de Voragine’s thirteenth-century compendium of saints’ lives, known as the Golden Legend.1 The Italian edition, edited and translated by Niccolò Manerbi, was printed at least eleven times between 1475 and 1499, with the final five editions illustrated.2 In the illustrated versions, each saint is assigned a single woodcut illustration, one meant to best encapsulate his or her life in one or two scenes. Francis of Assisi, for example, is shown receiving the stigmata. Peter Martyr is represented by a scene of his brutal murder at the hands of heretical assassins. Martin of Tours is accorded two scenes: dividing his cloak with a beggar and receiving his bishopric. Although there is some variation among the editions, especially between those printed in Venice and those printed in Milan, for most saints the same (or similar) images appear in each of the five illustrated printings.