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Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance
The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader ...
The 1755 Leoni Edition
Rare classic helped introduce the glories of ancient architecture to the Renaissance. 68 black-and-white plates. Extremely rare and valuable volume no...
A New Translation and Critical Edition
In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text....
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In his discussion of painting Alberti writes of the process of vision, how the painter can present with his hand what he has understood with his mind,...
De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance fo...
Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. ...
humaniste, architecte
The first truly critical edition of the"Descriptio," which gathers in sixteen tables the alpha-numerical data relating to Alberti's topographical surv...
Marsh (Italian, Rutgers U.) introduces the revived popularity of Aesop-like fables in the Renaissance, initiated by Alberti's 100 Apologues (1437). Af...
A fresh English translation of five Alberti works that illuminate new aspects of the literary aims and development of the first "Renaissance man." Leo...
Mit Widmungsbrief des Autors an Franciscus Marescalchus. Mit Widmungsbrief an Robertus Puccius. Mit Lobgedicht auf den Autor von Antonius Sabinus
An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man." Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of ...
Includes the digitized complete text of the 1499 Venice edition of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, which is considered an important contribution to Italian...
In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who Have Written Upon the Five Orders, Viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, Compared with One Another