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Leon Battista Alberti or Leone Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher, cryptographer, and general Renaissancepolymath.

In Italy, his first name is usually spelled Leon. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite(Lives of the Artists). Alberti studied canon law at the University of Bologna, took Holy Orders, worked for the papal curia and as a canon, but his greatest interest was in mathematics, art, and classical architecture.

In 1435, Alberti wrote the first general treatise on the laws of perspective, De pictura(On Painting). De re aedificatoria (1452, Ten Books on Architecture), patterned after the De architecture by the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius, was the first architectural treatise of the Renaissance, and covered a wide range of subjects, from history to town planning,