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A fresh English translation of five Alberti works that illuminate
new aspects of the literary aims and development of the first
“Renaissance man.” Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one
of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His
extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art
theorist, and even athlete earned him the controversial title of
the first “Renaissance man.” The works collected in
Biographical and Autobiographical Writings reflect Alberti’s
lived experiences and his interests in the genre. This volume
includes On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literature, which
partly reflects his experiences as a student in Bologna; The Life
of St. Potitus, the biography of a Christian martyr, which also
contains autobiographical projections and was to have been the
first in a series of lives of saints; My Dog, a mock funeral
oration for his dead dog; My Life, one of the first autobiographies
of the early modern period and the main source for Jacob
Burckhardt’s portrait of Alberti; and a comic encomium, The Fly.
In particular, the last three works—My Dog, My Life, and The
Fly—constitute a kind of trilogy, as the humanist finds one of
his main themes, the portrait of the ideal life, with a strong
emphasis on humor. This edition presents the first collected
English translations of these works alongside an authoritative
Latin text.
Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist
scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in
mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and
author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti:
On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In
this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and
critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Dr Sinisgalli
reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the
Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating
that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into
a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is
richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood
optics and art.
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