Humanism and the Urban World: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City - Paperback

by Caspar Pearson (Author)

Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria.

Author Biography

Caspar Pearson is Lecturer at the University of Essex.