Leon Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 - April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher, cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. In Italy, his first name is usually spelled "Leon". Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's "Vite". Wikipedia
"...[The] avowed architectural aim, to schematize in the spatial form of the church the immanent, harmonious order of the world, found majestic realization in Alberti's own church of Sant' Andrea in Mantua. www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/S._Andrea.html
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Leon Battista Alberti nacque a Genova nel 1404, figlio illegittimo di Lorenzo Alberti, esponente di una ricca famiglia di commercianti fiorentini bandita da Firenze dal 1382 per motivi politici. tuttotempolibero.altervista.org/poesia/quattrocento/leonb...
