Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
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Part I: Alberti’s Life and Humanism
	Chapter 1: Alberti’s Life
	Chapter 2: Alberti and Burckhardt: The Construction of a Myth
	Chapter 3: Alberti and the Redirection of Renaissance Humanism
Part II: The Early Latin Works
	Chapter 4: The First Work: Philodoxeos Fabula
	Chapter 5: Finding a Voice: De commodis Litterarum Atque Incommodis and Vita S. Potiti
Part III: Elevating the Vernacular
	Chapter 6: Thematic and Structural Unity in De familia
	Chapter 7: Stoic Pessimism and Classical Culture in Theogenius
	Chapter 8: The High-Water  Mark of Alberti’s Vernacular Humanism: Profugiorum ab erumna libri
Part IV: Expanding the Confines of Latin
	Chapter 9: Technical Treatises I: Bilingualism and Rhetorical Strategies in De pictura
	Chapter 10: The Major Humorous Works I: Intercenales
	Chapter 11: The Major Humorous Works II: Momus
	Chapter 12: Technical Treatises II: The Two Cultures in De re aedificatoria
Conclusion
Notes
Index