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SELECTED WRITINGS BY ALBERTI

Opera inedita, ed. G. Mancini, Florence, 1890

Opere volgari, ed. C. Grayson, 3 vols., Bari, 1960, 1966 and 1973

Della Pittura, ed. L. Mallè, Florence, 1950

La prima grammatica della lingua volgare, ed. C. Grayson, Bologna, 1964

L’Architettura (De Re aedificatoria), ed. and Italian trs. G. Orlandi with intro. and notes by P. Portoghese, 2 vols., Milan, 1966

De Pictura and De Statua in L. B. Alberti, ‘On Painting’ and ‘On Sculpture’, ed. and trs. C. Grayson, London, 1972

Apologi ed elogi, ed. R. Contarino, Genoa, 1984

Momo o del principe, ed. R. Consolo, Genoa, 1986

On Painting, trs. J. R. Spencer, rev. ed., London and New Haven, 1966

The Family in Renaissance Florence, trs. of Della Famiglia by R. N. Watkins, Columbia (South Carolina) 1969

Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces, Binghampton (New York), 1987

On the Art of Building in Ten Books, trs. of De Re aedificatoria by J. Rykwert, N. Leach and R. Tavernor, with intro. by J. Rykwert, Cambridge (Mass.) and London, 1988

BIOGRAPHIES AND MONOGRAPHS

For the early Vita (anonymous but probably an autobiography), see R. Fubini and A. Menci Gallorini, ‘L’autobiografia di L. B. Alberti. Studio e edizione’, Rinascimento, XII, 1972, pp. 21–78.

G. Mancini, Vita di Leon Battista Alberti, Florence, 1882, 2nd ed., Rome, 1911 (reprinted, Rome 1967)

P. H. Michel, Un Idéal humain au XVe siècle: La Pensée de L. B. Alberti, Paris, 1930 C. Grayson, ‘Alberti, Leon Battista’, Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. I, Rome, 1960, pp. 702–9, and in Dizionario critica della letteratura italiana, ed. V. Branca, 2nd ed., Turin, 1986

J. Gadol, Leon Battista Alberti. Universal Man of the Early Renaissance, Chicago and London, 1969

F. Borsi, Leon Battista Alberti, Oxford, 1977

‘Leon Battista Alberti’, Architectural Design, XLIX, 1979 (A.D. Profiles 21, special issue, ed. J. Rykwet, with contributions by C. Grayson, H. Damish, F. Choay, M. Tafuri, H. Burns, R. Tavernor and J. Rykwert)

M. Jarzombek, On Leon Battista Alberti, London, 1989.

A. Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti. Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance, London, 2002

LITERATURE ON DE PICTURA, OPTICS, PERSPECTIVE, ARCHITECTURE, ETC.

C. Grayson, ‘Studi su L. B. Alberti’, Rinascimento, IV, 1953, pp. 54–62

R. Watkins, ‘Alberti’s Emblem, the Winged Eye, and his Name, Leo’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz, IX, 1960, pp. 256–8

R. Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, 3rd ed., London, 1962

G. F. Vescovini, Studi sulla prospettiva medievale, Turin, 1965

J. R. Spencer, ‘Ut rhetorica pictura’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XX, 1966, pp. 26–44

J. White, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space, 2nd ed., London, 1967

C. Grayson, ‘The Text of Alberti’s De Pictura’, Italian Studies, XXIII, 1968, pp. 71–92

S. Y. Edgerton Jnr., ‘Alberti’s Colour Theory. A Mediaeval Bottle without Renaissance Wine’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XXII, 1969, pp. 109–34

R. Weiss, The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity, Oxford, 1969

L. H. Heydenreich and W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy, 1400–1600, Harmondsworth, 1974

S. Y. Edgerton Jnr., The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective, New York, 1975

M. Baxandall, Giotto and the Orators. Humanist observers of painting in Italy and the discovery of pictorial composition, Oxford, 1971

D. C. Lindberg, Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler, Chicago, 1976

D. R. E. Wright, ‘Alberti’s De pictura: its Literary Structure and Purpose’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XLVII, 1984, pp. 52–71

P. Hills, The Light of Early Italian Painting, New Haven and London, 1987

J. Onians, Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Princeton, 1988.

M. Kemp, The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, New Haven and London, 1990

C. Smith: Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism: Ethics, Aesthetics and Eloquence, 1400–1470 (New York and Oxford, 1992)

OTHER THEORISTS ETC.

Cennino Cennini, Il Libro dell’arte, trs. D. Y. Thompson, The Craftsman’s Handbook, New Haven, 1933

Lorenzo Ghiberti, I Comentarii, ed. O. Morisani, Naples, 1947

Antonio Manetti(?), The Life of Brunelleschi, ed. H. Saalman, trs. C. Engass, London and Pennsylvania, 1970

Leonardo on Painting, ed. M. Kemp, trs. M. Kemp and M. Walker, New Haven and London, 1989

A. Blunt, Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450–1600, Oxford, 1940

M. Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, Oxford, 1972

M. Kemp, ‘From “Mimesis” to “Fantasia”: the Quattrocento Vocabulary of Creation, Inspiration and Genius in the Visual Arts’, Viator, VIII, 1977, p. 347

Italian Art, 1400–1500 (‘Sources and Documents’), ed. C. Gilbert, Englewood Cliffs (N.J.), 1980

D. Summers, The Judgement of Sense, Cambridge, 1987

F. Ames-Lewis, The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist, London and New Haven, 2000