Humanism and the urban world
Subtitle: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance city
By: Caspar Pearson
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780271048550
Subjects: Cities and towns; Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance city
Description: "Explores Italian Renaissance writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti's complex and sometimes ambivalent attitudes toward the concept of the city, and relates them to his broader intellectual positions" --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.