Humanism and the Urban World : : Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City / / Caspar Pearson.
In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 145...
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