Leon Battista Alberti

Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance

Anthony Grafton

    Acknowledgments

    I. Who Was Leon Battista Alberti? Making an Identity in the 1430s

    II. Humanism: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Scholarship

    IlI. From New Technologies to Fine Arts: Alberti Among the Engineers

    IV. On Painting: Alberti and the Origins of Criticism

    V. Interpreting Florence: From Reading to Rebuilding

    VI. The Artist at Court: Alberti in Ferrara

    VII. His Lost City: Alberti the Antiquary

    VIII. Alberti on the Art of Building

    IX. The Architect and City Planner

    Epilogue

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: Leon Battista Alberti
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Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.