Talk:Leon Battista Alberti

message: This article is very well developed. There are a lot of citations, and a ton of sources and references in the bibliography. I checked some of these citations to make sure they were not broken links or pages out of date, and I was happily confronted with reliable sources. Each section has many subheadings, which leads me to believe this is a fairly detailed article as well. I did notice there was one section under architecture, "Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini," which only had a sentence or two of information, and two citations. I think this category deserves more research and explanation on the page. CarolineFrankDuke (talk) 01:51, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: General Comments

message: Come on.. no mention that he was able to leap over a man's head from a standing start? ;) (c.f., Renaissance Man the movie) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:23, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)
:Rats! I forgot to mention that he was faster than a speeding bullet. As for the leaping, he could do tall buildings at a single bound. I know of nothing on his strengh, but he was related to my grandfather Stonebender, so we might be able to deduce something from that. Can we put that in? ww 16:48, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Physical Abilities

message: We had in the article that Alberti was born on the 14th of February, but several places put it at 18th Februrary instead (e.g. Catholic encyclopedia). february 1404 doesn't seem conclusive. I've temporarily removed the precise date from the article. — Matt 13:38, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate

message: I am unable to find any evidence that he was a composer, or that any music survives which can be reliably attributed to him.  There is no entry on him in the 20-volume Grove Dictionary (note that there were at least seven other Albertis who were composers, including Antonio degli Alberti (1360-1415), Domenico (the most famous), Gasparo (1480-1560), Giuseppe, Innocentio, Johann Friedrich, and Pietro--I just want to make sure whoever put him in the Italian composers category made sure he wasn't confused with one of these).  Sorry about being pedantic ... :-)  Antandrus 23:42, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  composer? 

message: Today's new addition seems completely taken from another website -- http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/alberti.htm . If it is free for copying, it should at least be referenced. If it is not free for copying, it should be deleted. Does anyone know the copyright status of this material? Mlouns 04:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 

message: In the section "Childhood and Education," there is the following sentence:
 Like Petrarch, who had been the first famous philologist to study the works of the ancient
 Roman poets, Alberti loved classics, but he compared continual reading and rereading in
 libraries.
This seems like a sentence fragment, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to rework it so that it makes sense.
It would make sense if it were
 Like Petrarch, who had been the first famous philologist to study the works of the ancient
 Roman poets, Alberti loved classics.
However, the rest of the sentence clearly relates to something Alberti said; I just don't know what.
Anyone care to take a stab at it?
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 14:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Say What? 

message: I find it odd, given all the scholarship on Alberti that this page is still like Reader's Digest. Take the following (quoted below). Not only are there no citations, but it implies that Vasari may be actually correct in his opinion. Alberti was most certainly no dilettante, as that word is understood today. He did paint, and he did know what he was doing. He was of course not a leading painter, nor the best painter, but we have to establish a more critical and evaluative tone. What an assessment of Alberti-as-painter has to do with his love of dogs is beyond me, but adds a good does of comedic relief.Brosi 14:38, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  no citations 

message: I haven't been active on this article. As the lead suggest, this article would be more conventionally correct if it were titled Leon Battista Alberti instead  of Leone Battista Alberti. This has been mentioned before in the discussion page, but there was no further action. Is anyone against this move? --Stomme (talk) 16:44, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title - Move to [[Leon Battista Alberti]] 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius  For example;  From Wikipedia concerning Vitruvius; "Little is known about Vitruvius' life."  This an almost exceptional statement since in most cases, the older the personage, the more we seem to know about their early lives.  Please compare Plato to those who reportedly followed him? It seems possible to me!After all Leon Alberti only means "the smart lion!", especially if "Battista" has a similar meaning to "Polymath?"  Perhaps his family was from modern France, I.E. Lyon? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberti_(surname)  Also consider this? http://search.aol.com/aol/imageDetails?s_it=imageDetails&q=alberti&v_t=comsearch51&b=image%3Fs_it%3Dtopsearchbox.search%26v_t%3Dcomsearch51%26q%3Dalberti%26oreq%3De580d8d1e5c64c708a142e12a5d7a147&img=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.trincoll.edu%2F%7Ecrypto%2Fhistorical%2Falberti.jpg&host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.trincoll.edu%2F%7Ecrypto%2Fhistorical%2Falberti.html&width=68&height=90&thumbUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fimages-partners-tbn.google.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcSYZ72ciCyucgKNy2uHVNqVNba6rWWJ6zc0md0nOa781Kqv2rLBRf0ALF4&imgWidth=300&imgHeight=397&imgSize=26314&imgTitle=alberti96.19.159.196 (talk) 03:09, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we consider if he "Leone/Leon" was actually the original Vitruvius? 

message: The references to Alberti's athleticism were recently deleted with the comment that the source doesn't support the statement. This is in error. Part 2 of Burkhartd's book, about the rise of the individual, talks specifically about Alberti being able to jump over a man's head. 
03:21, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent deletion

message: I've fixed the death date on all the language versions of Wikipedia. I was alerted to an issue by an OTRS ticket (2015021710017857), and delved in a bit further. I couldn't find any sources listing April 20 as the subject's death date. Britannica list April 25.
In Russian Wikipedia, the following is included as a footnote:
: по другим данным — 19 апреля (История литературы Италии. Т.2, кн.1. М., 2007. С.337)
Translated into English:
: according to other sources - on April 19 (Literary History of Italy. Volume 2, Book 1. M., 2007. C.337)
It's not immediately apparent to me what book that refers to.
Unless we get some more useful source or can get some confirmation on the source listed on Russian Wikipedia, I think our sourcing policy has to stick with April 25. If I get any feedback on any of the wikis I've edited, I'll feed it back here. —Tom Morris (talk) 18:06, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death date 

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message: I can't see any mention of "Elementi di pittura", written after "Della pittura", which is available in Italian but I haven't found any translations.  The only other info I have is its publication in 1890 "Opera inedita et pauca separatim impressa", G. Mancini, ed. (Florence, 1890) 51.6.72.129 (talk) 13:43, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
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