Leon Battista Alberti: La Biblioteca Di Un Umanista
Leon Battista Alberti: La Biblioteca Di Un Umanista
Leon Battista Alberti: La Biblioteca Di Un Umanista
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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 8 October 2005-7 Jenuary 2006. Of the books that once belonged to Leon Battista Alberti only few have survived; but the works we know he read and used, together with his own writings, are on display at the Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 8 October 2005-7 January 2006). This attempt at reconstruction is based on a close scrutiny of Alberti’s own “ideology of the book”, particularly of what he wrote on the subjects of books and libraries, the latter described as places which define a community, buildings that “give lustre” to the city, intellectual and moral shrines.
