Studies on Alberti and Petrarch

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Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Italian, and a groundbreaking theorist of painting, sculpture, and architecture. His Latin writings owe much to the model of Petrarch (1304-1374), the famed poet of the Italian Canzoniere, but also a prolific author of Latin epistles, biographies, and poems that sparked the revival of classical culture in the early Italian Renaissance. The essays collected here reflect some thirty years of research into these pioneers of Humanism, and offer important insights into forms of Renaissance 'self-fashioning' such as allegory and autobiography. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introductory I Alberti, Leon Battista II Leon Battista Alberti at the millennium (review essay) III The self-expressed: Leon Battista Alberti's autobiography 2. Petrarch IV Petrarch and Alberti V Petrarch and Jerome VI Petrarch and Suetonius: the imperial ideal in the republic of letters VII Poetics and polemics in Petrarch's invectives VIII The burning question: crisis and cosmology in the Secret (Secretum) 3. Albertian Allegory and Symbolism IX Alberti's Momus: sources and contexts X Alberti and Apuleius: comic violence and vehemence in the Intercenales and Momus XI Alberti, Scala, and Ficino: Aesop in Quattrocento Florence XII Visualizing virtue: Alberti and the early Renaissance emblem XIII Alberti and symbolic thinking: prolegomena to the dialogue Anuli XIV L'Alberti, il Pisanello e gli Este: Devises e medaglie umanistiche nel primo Quattrocento 4. Poggio, Alberti, and Vat. Lat. 4037 XV De curialium incommodis: Alberti and Poggio XVI Poggio and Alberti: three notes XVII Girolamo Massaini trascrittore dell'Alberti (with Paolo d'Alessandro) 5. Textual Problems in Alberti XVIII Further notes on Leon Battista Alberti's Dinner Pieces XIX Textual problems in the Intercenales Index