Leon Battista Alberti, De re aedificatoria The Ten Books of Architecture aedificatori

Guide to Alberti, Leon Battista, De re aedificatoria. Manuscript, circa 1485 2016 University of Chicago Library

Alberti wrote an influential work on architecture, De Re Aedificatoria, which by the 18th century had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and English.

For Burckhardt, Leon Battista Alberti was the most remarkable "universal man" of the early Renaissance. He was a major architect and architectural theorist, an accomplished painter, …

Escrito desde una pespectiva humanista esta divido en 10 libros temáticos. En él se contienen los principios esenciales de la arquitectura del Renacimiento, tanto en los fundamentos básicos de la …

Das erste Buch ist den‚Prinzipien ‘ gewidmet und liefert den Schlüssel zu Albertis Verständnis der Architekturtheorie. Grundlegend ist die Lehre.

before becoming a cleric or secretary, first to Cardinal Carthusian Niccolo Albergati. In 1428 the Florentine ban against the Alberti family was lifted and Leon got to see first and early Renaissance …