Like a signal from the past, Leon Battista ... Florence, he had been exiled from the city since 1393, when political enemies had come to power. Meanwhile, the plague was ravaging Europe. Alberti ...

Late in the 1460s, Leon Battista Alberti ... to show what sort of writer Alberti was, and the results are impressive – more so, in the end, than Burckhardt’s brilliant impressionism. Not long after ...

Giovanni Pisano and Giotto are widely recognised as the founders of Renaissance sculpture and painting, and Brunelleschi of Renaissance architecture, but it was Leon Battista ... that Alberti ...