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The Ten Books of Architecture: The 1755 Leoni Edition

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Leon Battista Alberti

Dover Publications, 1987

A Classic with in a Classic font
The author of this book is often cited as the ideal of a Renaissance man, an architect, writer, musician, painter and by some accounts an amazing athlete. This book is based upon the Leone edition, a 1755 English translation of Alberti's original work from the 1400's. Alberta has a very modern succinct style. The chapters include many subchapters to help organize the information. He covers ...

The Family in Renaissance Florence (I libri della famiglia), Books One-Four

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Leon Battista Alberti

Waveland Press, Inc., 2004

Fantastic collection of writings.
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was an odd duck in his way. He was born illegitimate, died single, and definitely didn't like women all that much. So of course he wrote one of the most popular how-to books in his day. Taking the form of a dialog similar to Plato's writings, he teaches several young men how to be good husbands, fathers, and citizens. This collection here comprises his four ...

On the Art of Building in Ten Books

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Leon Battista Alberti

The MIT Press, 1991

A must have Volume for any Architect or Town Planner.
The Ten Books of Architecture by Alberti, is one of the finest texts for the education of an Architect or Town Planner. Alberti's ideas are studied at almost very Architecture Program in the world. The Ten Books of Architecture describe how to design successfully, and how to design towns that are safe. Alberti expands on the work of Vitruvius. I would recommend this book for anyone who ...

Momus (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

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Leon Battista Alberti

Harvard University Press, 2003

Volume Three: The Supremacy of the Soul in the World of Matter
The third of this magnificent six volume set proceeds with the dominant theme of the work, which aims to furnish proofs of the soul's immortality through a systemization of the principal ideas belonging to the Platonic tradition [yet paradoxically the work is also highly syncretic, blending elements of Hermetism, Scripture, Eastern mysticism and Medieval Aristotelianism]. Now the crux of this ...

On Painting (Penguin Classics)

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Leon Battista Alberti

Penguin Classics, 1991

Charming little book with insights into perspective painting
Book I is a leisurely introduction to the basic geometrical principles of painting. "I usually give my friends the following rule: the more rays are employed in seeing, the greater the quantity seen will appear. ... Furthermore, the extrinsic rays, which hold on like teeth to the whole of the outline, form an enclosure around the entire surface like a cage. This is why they say that vision takes ...

The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book Three/I Libri Della Famiglia
Leon Battista Alberti, Renee Neu Watkins

Waveland Press, 1994

A classic of Italian literature! The chief merit of this work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature and science. It displays a variety of high styles--high rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of character--in the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The treatise, in its entirety, shows a ...

Das Standbild. Die Malkunst. Grundlagen der Malerei. De Statua - De Pictura - Elementa Picturae.
Leon Battista Alberti, Kristine Patz, ...

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000

Divertissements Mathématiques
Leon Battista Alberti

Seuil, 2002

Fables sans morale, suivi de "Prophéties facétieuses" de Léonard de Vinci
Leon Battista Alberti, Léonard de Vinci

Les Belles Lettres, 1997

Renaissance Fables: Aesopic Prose (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series), V. 260.)

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Bartolomeo Scala, Leonardo da Vinci, ...

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S, 2004

Translated with an informative introduction
Translated with an informative introduction and extensive notes by David Marsh (Professor of Italian, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and a specialist in Renaissance Studies), Renaissance Fables: Aesopic Prose By Leon Battista Alberti, Bartolomeo Scala, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bernardino Baldi presents the first English renditions of fables by Alberti, Scala, and Baldi, as well as brand ...

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