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
Scholars would have you think Alberti came to Florence and wrote the first modern book on painting in a couple of months.
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
Pacioli was not only a friend of Leonardo but also of Alberti, with whom he stayed for some months as a young man.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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