Leon alberti battista biography for kids

Leone Battista Alberti (1404-1472), Italianpainter, poet, philosopher, cryptographer, musician and architect, was born in Venice on the February 18, 1404.

He was so skilled in Latin verse that a comedy he wrote in his twentieth year, entitled Philodoxius, deceived the younger Aldus, who edited and published it as the genuine work of Lepidus.

He has been credited with being the actual author of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a strange fantasy novel, whose typographic qualities and illustrations have made it legendary as one of the most beautiful books ever printed.

In music, he was reputed one of the first organists of the age.

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He held the appointment of canon in the metropolitan church of Florence, and thus had leisure to devote himself to his favourite art.

He is generally regarded as one of the Renaissance architects most devoted to restoring the formal language of classical architecture.

At Rome he was employed by Pope Nicholas V in th