I want to know the answer to the following question:
Who wrote Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament also played a part.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no