Alberti, Delineation of the City of Rome
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A collection of Alberti’s four mathematical treatises, intended to capture Alberti’s unique combination of formal and informal writing, will be available for the first time ...
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A classic of Italian literature! The chief merit of this work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of ...
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De statua is not – as the title suggests – “treatise on sculpture or sculpture, but a proposal to solve some problems, such ...
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De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for ...
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