Leon Battista Alberti
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title:
Leon Battista Alberti
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Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of Western cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius. He is often considered primarily an architect. However, as James Beck has observed, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient
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Italian architect and author (1404-1472)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti
date created:
2001-08-22T14:43:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T15:11:16Z
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