Alberti, Leone Battista

Born: 1404 AD
Died: 1472 AD, at 68 years of age.

Nationality: Italian
Categories: Architects, Authors, Cryptographer, Linguist, Philosophers, Poets

1404 - Alberti was born in Genoa on February 14, 1404.

1424 - Wrote "On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Letters".

1428 - Received his doctorate in canon law.

1448 - Appointed Rector of the parish of San Lorenzo in Mugello.

1450 - He was commissioned to help transform the Gothic Church of S. Francesco.

1472 - Died on April 25, 1472.

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"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods."

	The Albertis of Florence: Leon Battista Alberti's Della Famiglia. (Bucknell Renaissance texts in translation) by Leone Battista Alberti (Hardcover - Apr 16, 1980)
	S. Andrea in Mantua: The Building History. by LEONE BATTISTA) Johnson, Eugene J. (ALBERTI (Hardcover - May 16, 1975)
	On Painting by Leone Battista Alberti (Hardcover - Oct 19, 1976)
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