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Alberti
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Alberti
Leon Battista (le'%n bat'tista). 1404--72, Italian Renaissance architect, painter, writer, and musician; among his architectural designs are the façades of Sta. Maria Novella at Florence and S. Francesco at Rimini


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Other highlights of the catalogue include essays by Paolo Massalin on the history of the Alberti family, by Ferruccio Canali on the facade of S.
Ponte presents the political and economic life of Genoa as the place where members of the Alberti family had established bank branches since the thirteenth century.
Toward the end of the fourteenth century, the Alberti family had been exiled from their native Florence; and one of the leading bankers of the Alberti clan, Lorenzo, sought refuge in Genoa, where the family had a branch office.
 
 
 
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