==Life==Leon Battista Alberti was born in 1404 in Genoa to a wealthy Florentine father who had been exiled from his own city, but who was allowed to return in 1428.
Leon Battista Alberti (14. februar 1404 - 25. april 1472) je bil italijanski humanist, umetnik, arhitekt, pesnik, duhovnik, jezikoslovec, filozof in kriptograf; je poosebljal renesanso in bil takorekoč vseved.