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A penetrating study of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature.Listen to Alberti's voice. This is what Mark Jarzombek has done in studying virtually all of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature. Jarzombek's thorough grasp of Alberti's thought and painstaking analysis of his elusive identity transform our image of this remarkable man carving out a new place for Alberti in literary theory, art history, and Renaissance scholarship.Instead of warming over the stereotypes of Alberti as a ""universal man"" or as a proponent of ""civic Humanism,"" Jarzombek explores Alberti's views on the relationship between the writer and society. He asserts that, while Alberti was indeed an architect, an art theorist and a man of letters, he was above all a theoretician of writing: ""Everywhere one turns, the problems of writing, authorship and textuality seem to appear, from his first writings... to his last."" Jarzombek, opening the possibilities for a different type of discussion of Alberti and of such major works as De pictura and De re aedificatora, places Alberti more accurately within the context of his times and clarifies the intertextual relationship among his works. Jarzombek's investigation brings to light themes that have remained hidden in the complex world of Alberti's speculations. The Alberti of Jarzombeks book is an outsider struggling to resolve conflicting impulses of pessimism and hope. He is also a profound and willful thinker who, while amalgamating contemporary trends, did not endorse them but countered with a cosmological philosophy of his own.

Alberti, Leon Battista, --- Philosophy --- Alberti, Leon Battista --- -Philosophy --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Albert, Leon Baptiste --- Alberti, Leon Batista --- Philosophy. --- Alberti, Leo Baptista, --- Alberti, Leon Batista, --- Alberti, Leonis Baptiste, --- Alberti, Leone Battista, --- Alberti, L. B. --- Alberti, Battista, --- אלברטי, ליאון באטיסטה --- Lepidus, --- Aesthetics. --- Alberti, Leon Battista, - 1404-1472 - Philosophy --- ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General --- Alberti, Leon Battista, - 1404-1472

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Art, Early Renaissance --- Art, Renaissance --- Early Renaissance art --- Early Renaissance --- 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, --- Art --- History --- Festschriften --- Congres / 1998 --- Grayson, Cecil --- Gombrich, Ernst H.

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One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti's output encompassed engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humour, political commentary and more. He employed irony, satire and playful allusion in his written works, and developed a sophisticated approach to architecture that combined the ancient and modern. Born into the Florentine elite, Alberti was nonetheless disadvantaged due to exile and illegitimacy. As a result, he became an acute analyst of the social institutions of his time, as well as a profoundly existential writer who was intensely preoccupied with the human condition.0This new account explores Alberti's life and works, examining how his personal and intellectual preoccupations continually pushed him to engage with an ever-broader spectrum of Renaissance culture.

Architects --- Authors, Italian --- Professional employees --- Alberti, Leon Battista, --- 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, --- ARCHITECTURE / General. --- Architects. --- Authors, Italian. --- To 1500. --- Italy. --- 72.07 --- Architectuur ; Renaissance --- Architectuurtheorie ; 15de eeuw ; Leon Battista Alberti --- Renaissance ; Italië --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z

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Architecture, Renaissance --- Architecture de la Renaissance --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- Alberti, Leon Battista, --- 72.034 <45> --- -Alberti, Leon Battista --- Renaissance architecture --- Renaissance revival (Architecture) --- Architectuur van de renaissance; barok; rococo en koloniale stijl--Italië --- Exhibitions --- Alberti, Leon Battista --- -Exhibitions --- 72.034 <45> Architectuur van de renaissance; barok; rococo en koloniale stijl--Italië --- Albert, Leon Baptiste --- Alberti, Leon Batista --- 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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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,