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On Leon Battista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories

On Leon Battista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories

My main purpose is to follow Alberti’s own development and to lay bare the internal consistencies of his thought. In order to arrange the complex material of Alberti’s writings and make internal relationships clear, I have divided my discussion into three parts that overlap on occasion. The first part deals with the method Alberti employs to develop his cultural theories, a method based on a system of autobiographically tinged interlocutors that...

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