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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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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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Renaissance --- humanism --- Petrarca, Francesco --- Alberti, Leon Battista --- Humanism --- Humanism in literature. --- Pétrarque, --- Alberti, Leon Battista, --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- Critique et interprétation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Humanism in literature --- Pétrarque --- Petrarch --- Petracco, Francesco --- Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) --- 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, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Petrarca, Franciscus, --- Petrarch, --- Petrarch, Francesco, --- Petrarcha, Franciscus, --- Petrark, --- Petrarka, Franchesko, --- Peṭrarḳa, Frants'esḳo, --- Pétrarque, --- Петрарка, Франческо, --- פטררקא, פרנצ׳סקו --- Pétrarque --- Critique et interprétation.

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Art, Renaissance --- Humanism in art --- Art --- Renaissance art --- 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, --- Aesthetics. --- Philosophy. --- History --- humanism --- architectural theory --- art theory

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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”.