Leonardo and Alberti are representatives and almost a compendium in themselves of all that intellectual vigour of the Renaissance age, which in the 16th century took to developing itself in its individual parts, making way for what has by some been called the golden age of Italian literature.
Leonardo a Alberti predstavujú všetku intelektuálnu energiu obdobia renesancie, ktorá sa v 16. storočí začala rozvíjať po svojich jednotlivých častiach, čím umožnili to, čo niektorí nazvali zlatý vek talianskej literatúry.