In his twenties Alberti wrote On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Letters, which he dedicated to his brother Carlo, also a scholar and writer.

" In painting Alberti achieved nothing of any great importance or beauty ," wrote Vasari.

* Alberti wrote an influential work on architecture, De Re Aedificatoria, which by the 18th century had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and English.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.

In the early 15th century, Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote a treatise entitled De Re aedificatoria which theorized methods of building fortifications capable of withstanding the new guns.

Leon Battista Alberti wrote a savage and pessimistic Latin satiric dialogue, Momus, ( ca.

In discussing Leon Battista Alberti's use of pilasters, which Alberti reintroduced into wall-architecture, Rudolf Wittkower wrote, " The pilaster is the logical transformation of the column for the decoration of a wall.

In 1976 he wrote and demoed " Eenzame Kerst ", a song about a prisoner's lonely Christmas, for singer Willy Alberti hoping that he would record it ( as a possible sequel track to his crime-song " De Dievenwagen "); Alberti suggested that Hazes recorded it himself and helped him signing to Philips Records.

While some members, such as Jorge Guillén, wrote in a style that has been loosely called jubilant and joyous and celebrates the instant, others, such as Rafael Alberti, underwent a poetic evolution which led him from youthful poetry of a more romantic vein to politically engaged verses later in life.

Leone Battista Alberti, the learned Greek and Latin scholar, wrote in the vernacular, and Vespasiano da Bisticci, while he was constantly absorbed in Greek and Latin manuscripts, wrote the Vite di uomini illustri, valuable for their historical contents, and rivalling the best works of the 14th century in their candour and simplicity.

Leonardo da Vinci wrote a treatise on painting, Leone Battista Alberti one on sculpture and architecture.

The great architect and polymath Leone Battista Alberti wrote ( De architectura ) that " the art of building ... in Italy achieved perfect maturity ", that the Romans had " created such a perfect art of building that there was in it nothing mysterious, hidden or unclear.

" To make clear my exposition in writing this brief commentary on painting ," Alberti began his treatise, Della Pittura ( On Painting ), " I will take first from the mathematicians those things with which my subject is concerned.

The term and concept was popularized to the general public by books such as Your Perfect Right: A Guide to Assertive Behavior ( 1970 ) by Robert E. Alberti, and When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How To Cope Using the Skills of Systematic Assertiveness Therapy ( 1975 ) by Manuel J. Smith.

Many people participated in the Corona project, including: Francesco Bontempi ( songwriting, arrangement, producing, mixing ), Francesco Alberti ( engineering ), Graziano Fanelli ( engineering ), Olga Souza singer ( vocals ), Jenny B ( real name Giovanna Bersola ) singer for the first single " The Rhythm of the Night ", ( vocals ) songwriters-Antonia Bottari, Ivana Spagna, G. Spagna, Annerley Gordon, Fred Di Bonaventura, Gaffurini, V. Marcolin, M. Marcolin, M. Anthony, Michael Gaffey, Pete Glenister, F. Martinelli, A. Puntillo, Marco Baroni, A. Bellucci, L. Ratti, S. Tonelli, N. Heathen, I. G.

Sebastiano Serlio ( 1475 – 1554 ), published his famous book I sette libri d ' architettura in 1537 in which he was the second to mention the Composite order as its own order and not just as an evolution of the Corinthian order as previously suggested by Leon Battista Alberti.

The astounding list of painters and artists includes the names of Andrea Mantegna, Vicino da Ferrara, Giovanni Bellini, Leon Battista Alberti, Pisanello, Piero della Francesca, Battista Dossi, Dosso Dossi, Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa and Titian.

* Della pittura e della statua di Leonbatista Alberti, Milano, 1804 ( on-line )

The first known grammar of a Romance language was a book written in manuscript form by Leon Battista Alberti between 1437 and 1441 and entitled Grammatica della lingua toscana, " Grammar of the Tuscan Language " In it Alberti sought to demonstrate that the vernacular – here Tuscan, known today as modern Italian – was every bit as structured as Latin ; He did so by mapping vernacular structures onto Latin.

Treatises were composed on perspective by eminent theorists of art and architecture, including figures like Leon Battista Alberti, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Piero della Francesca, aided also by experimental uses of optical devices through the installations of Filippo Brunelleschi.

In his youth, according to stories, Alberti could — with his feet together — jump over a man's head, he was a superb horseman, and he " learned music without a master, and yet his compositions were admired by professional judges.

It has been considered as a roman à clef — Jupiter has been identified in some sources as Pope Eugenius IV and Pope Nicholas V. Alberti borrowed many of its characters from Lucian, one of his favorite Greek writers.

The Triassic was named in 1834 by Friedrich Von Alberti, after the three distinct rock layers ( tri meaning " three ") that are found throughout Germany and northwestern Europe — red beds, capped by chalk, followed by black shales — called the ' Trias.

* 1450 — Leone Battista Alberti developed a swinging-plate anemometer.

* Polyalphabetic substitution, that is, the use of several alphabets — chosen in assorted, more or less devious, ways ( Leone Alberti seems to have been the first to propose this ); and

From the fossils contained in the three distinct layers — of red bed sandstones, capped by chalk ( Muschelkalk ), followed by black shales — that are found throughout Germany and Northwest Europe, and are called the ' Trias ' ( Latin trias meaning triad ), Alberti detected that they formed a single stratigraphic formation ; today it would be termed a system.

* Domenico Alberti — Olimpiade

These outstanding poets — among them Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, Dámaso Alonso, Luis Cernuda, Gerardo Diego, Federico García Lorca.

His late music contains elements typical of the early classical movement — e. g. the use of Alberti bass, quite dissimilar to Jean-Philippe Rameau or François Couperin.

In his Della Pictura of 1436, Leon Battista Alberti had argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer.

But how far Alberti was responsible for these innovations and how far he was simply articulating the trends of the artistic movement, with which his practical experience had made him familiar, is impossible to ascertain.

At Rome he was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the papal palace and of the restoration of the Roman aqueduct of Acqua Vergine, which debouched into a simple basin designed by Alberti, which was swept away later by the Baroque Trevi Fountain.

* Alberti is also now thought to have had an important role in the designing of Pienza, a village that had been called Corsignano, but which was redesigned beginning around 1459.

* Alberti was an accomplished cryptographer by the standard of his day, and invented the first polyalphabetic cipher which is now known as the Alberti cipher and machine-assisted encryption using his Cipher Disk.

Cryptography historian David Kahn titles him the " Father of Western Cryptography ", pointing to three significant advances in the field which can be attributed to Alberti: " the earliest Western exposition of cryptanalysis, the invention of polyalphabetic substitution, and the invention of enciphered code " ().

* The Florentine polymath Leon Battista Alberti begins writing the treatise On Painting, in which he argues for the importance of mathematical perspective in the creation of three-dimensional vision on a two-dimensional plane.

For this encipherment Alberti used a decoder device, his cipher disk, which implemented a polyalphabetic substitution with mixed alphabets.

In 1986 Hazes released two albums ; the first featured Italian covers ( including Volare, Bueno Sera and a revisit of Piove which he first sang in his childhood days ) and was dedicated to the memory of Willy Alberti.

In the mid-15th century, a new technique was invented by Alberti, now known generally as polyalphabetic ciphers, which recognised the virtue of using more than a single substitution alphabet ; he also invented a simple technique for " creating " a multitude of substitution patterns for use in a message.

Composers such as Gasparo Alberti produced music with polyphony using two organs, brass and viols, a style usually associated with Venice, but which flourished in the fine acoustic environment of Santa Maria Maggiore.

See also arpeggio in this list, which as an accompaniment pattern may be seen as a kind of broken chord ; see Alberti bass.

Thus the problem confronting Bernardo was similar to that which Alberti encountered a quarter century later when asked to complete the facade of Santa Maria Novella.

His primary task in Rome, apparently, was to draw up plans, likely under the supervision of Alberti, for rebuilding the Vatican and the Basilica of St. Peter's, projects which, due to the death of the pope in 1455, were never carried out.

In his Della Pictura of 1436 Alberti had argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer.

The polyalphabetic cipher was most clearly explained by Leon Battista Alberti around the year 1467, for which he was called the " father of Western cryptology ".

The revival of low relief, which was seen as a classical style, begins early in the Renaissance ; the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, a pioneering classicist building, designed by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450, uses low reliefs by Agostino di Duccio inside and on the external walls.