Alberti
Americannoun
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Leon Battista 1404–72, Italian architect, artist, musician, and poet.
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Rafael 1902–1999, Spanish poet.
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Example Sentences
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Leon Battista Alberti wrote a book on the institution of the family—rendered bittersweet by his own illegitimate identity; Mr. Luzzi quotes Alberti liberally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Alberti was a genius — a polymath who grew up in exile from Florence.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025
"We have now developed a special method to deform the wavefront of the light being emitted by the atom," explains Dr. Andrea Alberti.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024
For Alberti, closing huts and the access they provide would feel like a personal loss: during a high-altitude expedition in his youth, he rescued a woman in distress—and later married her.
From Scientific American • Apr. 3, 2023
They had seen Tin-Tan in Tender Little Pumpkins, and been to the country club to hear Alberti and his band.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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