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In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. Past scholars have generally characterized the Italian Renaissance architect and theorist as an enthusiast of the city who envisioned it as a rational, Renaissance ideal. Pearson argues, however, that Alberti’s approach to urbanism was far more complex—that he was even “essentially hostile” to the city at times. Rather than proposing the “ideal” city, Pearson maintains, Alberti presented a variety of possible cities, each one different from another. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria. Chapters address Alberti’s consideration of the city’s possible destruction and the city’s capacity to provide order despite its intrinsic instability; his assessment of a variety of political solutions to that instability; his affinity for the countryside and discussions of the virtues of the active versus the contemplative life; and his theories of aesthetics and beauty, in particular the belief that beauty may affect the soul of an enemy and thus preserve buildings from attack.
Cities and towns. --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Alberti, Leon Battista, --- Albert, Leon Baptiste --- Alberti, Leo Baptista, --- Alberti, Leon Batista, --- Alberti, Leonis Baptiste, --- Alberti, Leone Battista, --- Alberti, L. B. --- Alberti, Battista, --- אלברטי, ליאון באטיסטה --- Lepidus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Philosophy. --- Alberti, Leon Battista --- Italy. --- Leon Battista Alberti. --- Pearson. --- Renaissance. --- arcitecture. --- art. --- building. --- humanism. --- theory. --- urban. --- ”De re Aedificatoria”.
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Leon Battista Alberti (1404¬–1472) was a highly prolific polymath of the fifteenth century. Although his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, as are many of his literary and social writings, his mathematical works are not well represented. This present volume was planned to fill that gap, with entirely new English translations and critical commentaries making the works easily accessible for a wide readership of specialists and non-specialists alike. Four texts are included here. Although Alberti’s Commentarii rerum mathematicarum appears to be lost, we have his Ludi matematici . In these “games” Alberti describes twenty practical applications of mathematics in an accessible style. The translation is accompanied by a new transcript of the recently identified manuscript held in the National Library in Florence upon which it was based. In Elementi di pittura, Alberti provides a catalogue of definitions and geometric constructions, using Euclidean references but drawing a distinction between theoria of mathematical entities and praxis of painterly applications. Alberti’s most original mathematical contribution is a late work, De compendis cifris, first discussing the frequency of vowels, consonants, and different groupings in Latin, and then introducing a method of polyalphabetic substitution. Even more original is his enciphered code which permutes four numerals in two-, three-, and four-digit groups. De lunularum quadratura rehearses the classical demonstration of squaring a lune by Hippocrates.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 -- Influence. --- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. --- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800. --- Mathematics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Mathematics - General --- Mathematics. --- History. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Mathematics, general. --- Math --- Science --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Alberti, Leon Battista, --- Influence. --- Alberti, Leon Battista --- Albert, Leon Baptiste --- Alberti, Leo Baptista, --- Alberti, Leon Batista, --- Alberti, Leonis Baptiste, --- Alberti, Leone Battista, --- Alberti, L. B. --- Alberti, Battista, --- אלברטי, ליאון באטיסטה --- Lepidus,
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Partant tout d'abord de l'examen des formes et du fonctionnement du genre d'expression privilégié par Alberti, le dialogue, l'auteur s'attache à caractériser le regard que celui-ci porte sur les liens fondamentaux de la société de son temps. Ainsi sont analysés la relation conjugale, qui pose le problème de l'image double et contradictoire de la femme selon l'espace au sein duquel elle se trouve représentée, la relation entre pères et fils tout comme le modèle d'éducation qu'elle postule et enfin, le lien unissant l'institution familiale et la cité. Ce dernier point laisse envisager les rapports d'Alberti lui-même avec le pouvoir politique, saisi dans une perspective évolutive suivant les importantes mutations institutionnelles alors opérées. Toujours soucieux de soustraire son discours à un dogmatisme sévère et figé, c'est à travers un subtil jeu de masques, puissamment servi par le dialogue, qu'Alberti approche les différentes facettes d'une réalité ainsi soumise aux constantes variations du point de vue. Cette étude montre le génie de cet humaniste à "mettre en scène" la contradiction qu'il érige en véritable méthode d'investigation du réel, prouvant son parfait contrôle de la légendaire ambiguïté emblématique de tout son système de pensée.
Families --- History. --- Alberti, Leon Battista, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Alberti, Leon Battista --- Albert, Leon Baptiste --- Alberti, Leo Baptista, --- Alberti, Leon Batista, --- Alberti, Leonis Baptiste, --- Alberti, Leone Battista, --- Alberti, L. B. --- Alberti, Battista, --- אלברטי, ליאון באטיסטה --- Lepidus, --- Italie --- littérature --- humanisme
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A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world.Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. Such conviction has frequently led to a critique of modernity's founding heroes. Challenging that critique, Harries insists that modernity is supported by nothing other than human freedom. But more important to Harries is to show how modernist self-assertion is shadowed by nihilism and what it might mean to step out of that shadow. Looking at a small number of medieval and Renaissance texts, as well as some paintings, he uncovers the threshold that separates the modern from the premodern world. At the same time, he illuminates that other, more questionable threshold, between the modern and the postmodern.Two spirits preside over the book: Alberti, the Renaissance author on art and architecture, whose passionate interest in perspective and point of view offers a key to modernity; and Nicolaus Cusanus, the fifteenth-century cardinal, whose work shows that such interest cannot be divorced from speculations on the infinity of God. The title Infinity and Perspective connects the two to each other and to the shape of modernity.
Perspective (Philosophy) --- Infinite --- History. --- Nicholas, --- Alberti, Leon Battista, --- Infinity --- Chrypffs, Nicolaus, --- Cues, Nicolas de, --- Cues, Nikolaus von, --- Cusa, Nicolaus de, --- Cusano, Nicola, --- Cusano, Nicolò, --- Cusanus, Nicolaus, --- Khrypffs, Nicolaus, --- Krebs, Nicolaus, --- Kues, Nikolaus von, --- Kusánský, Mikuláš, --- Kuzańczyk, --- Kuzaneli, Nikoloz, --- Kuzanskiĭ, Nikolaĭ, --- Mikołaj, --- Mikuláš, --- Ni-ku-la Kʻu-sa, --- Nicholas de Cusa, --- Nicola, --- Nicolai, --- Nicolas, --- Nicolaus Cusanus, --- Nicolò, --- Nikolaĭ, --- Nikolaus, --- Nikolaus von Cusa, --- Nikoloz, --- Nikoloz Kuzanelis, --- Nikula Kʻu-sa, --- Николай, --- Кузанский, Николай, --- Cusano, Niccolò, --- Albert, Leon Baptiste --- Alberti, Leon Batista --- Alberti, Leon Battista --- Finite, The --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Alberti, Leo Baptista, --- Alberti, Leon Batista, --- Alberti, Leonis Baptiste, --- Alberti, Leone Battista, --- Alberti, L. B. --- Alberti, Battista, --- אלברטי, ליאון באטיסטה --- Lepidus, --- HUMANITIES/History --- Cusa, Nicolaas van, --- Nicolaas,
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