Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691174723ISBN-10:691174725UPC:9780691174723Book Category:History, Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Europe, Renaissance, Literary FiguresBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.40 x 6.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC85YDWB26
Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist
The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance--a fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt's...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691174723ISBN-10:691174725UPC:9780691174723Book Category:History, Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Europe, Renaissance, Literary FiguresBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.40 x 6.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC85YDWB26
Martin McLaughlin was Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Oxford from 2001 to 2017 and is now an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance and Italo Calvino. He has translated Italo Calvino: Letters 1941-1985 (Princeton), Calvino's Why Read the Classics? and Leon Battista Alberti's Biographical and...
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