Leon battista alberti autobiography samples

Leon Battista Alberti[1] (February 18, – April 20, ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest.

Excerpt from Alberti's Autobiography 1 In everything suitable to one born free and educated liberally, he was so 2 trained from boyhood that among the leading.

In addition to this experiment in self-projection, Alberti's writings abound in autobiographical allusions, several of them being Socratic.

Leon Battista Alberti: universal man of the early Renaissance.

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised.

In addition to this experiment in self-projection, Alberti's writings abound in autobiographical allusions, several of them being Socratic..

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Biographical and
Autobiographical Writings

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Leon Battista Alberti

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This volume collects:
- De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literature)
- Vita Sancti Potiti (The Life of St.
  
  Potitus)
- Canis (My Dog)
- Vita (My Life)
- Musca (The Fly)
These pieces were written between 1431 and 1444
Translated and with an Introduction by Martin McLaughlin
This is a bilingual edition that includes the original Latin text

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Our Assessment:

B+ : very enjoyable selection/collection of Alberti's work

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