De viris illustribus
In 1517, Alberti published in six books a treatise on the famous men of his order ("De viris illustribus Ordinis Praedicatorum", Bologna 1517), still profitably consulted. This work has gone through numerous editions and been translated into many modern tongues. Besides several lives of the saints, some of which Papebroch embodied in the "Acta Sanctorum", and a history of the Madonna di San Luca and the adjoining monastery, he published (Bologna, 1514, 1543) a chronicle of his native city ("Istoria di Bologna, etc.") to 1273. It was continued by Lucio Caccianemici to 1279.