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Humanism and the Urban World: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City (Paperback)

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Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria.

About the Author


Caspar Pearson is Lecturer at the University of Essex.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780271063690
ISBN-10: 0271063696
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication Date: November 15th, 2013
Pages: 280
Language: English