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Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist

By (author) Martin McLaughlin

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The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Albertiâ€™s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture Leon Battista Alberti (1404â€“1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissanceâ€”a fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardtâ€™s mythologizing of Alberti as a ""Renaissance or Universal Man."" In this book, Martin McLaughlin counters this partial perspective on Alberti, considering him more broadly as a writer dedicated to literature and humanism, a major protagonist and experimentalist in the literary scene of early Renaissance Italy. McLaughlin, a noted authority on Alberti, examines all of Albertiâ€™s major works in Latin and the Italian vernacular and analyzes his vast knowledge of classical texts and culture. McLaughlin begins with what we know of Albertiâ€™s life, comparing the facts laid out in Albertiâ€™s autobiography with the myth created in the nineteenth century by Burckhardt, before moving on to his extraordinarily wide knowledge of classical texts. He then turns to Albertiâ€™s works, tracing his development as a writer through texts that range from an early comedy in Latin successfully passed off as the work of a fictitious ancient author to later philosophical dialogues written in the Italian vernacular (a revolutionary choice at the time); humorous works in Latin, including the first novel in that language since antiquity; and the famous treatises on painting and architecture. McLaughlin also examines the astonishing range of Alberti's ancient sources and how this reading influenced his writing; what the humanist read, he argues, often explains what he wrote, and what he wrote reflected his relentless industry and pursuit of originality.

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