Alberti

Alberti Leon Battista (1404-1472), Italian architect, sculptor, painter and writer. Alberti was a playwright, musician, mathematician and sportsman, embodying the Renaissance ideal of a "harmonious personality". Born in Genoa and studied in Padua (with the famous humanist Gasparino da Bartsizza), then in Bologna. After graduating from the university, he became a doctor of canon and civil law. Alberti spent most of his life in Rome and other Italian cities, and only occasionally visited Florence.