Humanism and the urban world : Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance city / Caspar Pearson.

By: Pearson, Caspar, 1974-Material type: TextTextPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011Description: vii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780271048550 (cloth : alk. paper)Other title: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance citySubject(s): Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 -- Criticism and interpretation | Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 -- Philosophy | Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. De re aedificatoria | Cities and townsDDC classification: 720.92 LOC classification: NA1123.A5 | P43 2011Summary: "Explores Italian Renaissance writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti's complex and sometimes ambivalent attitudes toward the concept of the city, and relates them to his broader intellectual positions" --Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.

"Explores Italian Renaissance writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti's complex and sometimes ambivalent attitudes toward the concept of the city, and relates them to his broader intellectual positions" --Provided by publisher.

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