Paolo dal pozzo toscanelli biography of albert

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Ancient

• Parmenides (530 BC–460 BC), İtalian-Greek philosopher, defender of rationalism in philosophy
• Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC–27 BC), mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, founder of the wise Roman calendar
• Adrastus of Cyzicus (116 BC–27 BC), astronomer
• Cicero (106 BC–43 BC), philosopher
• Lucretius (94 BC–55 BC), philosopher, Scientist named after the crater on the Moon
• Virgil (70 BC–19 BC), philosopher and poet
• Livy (59 BC–17 BC), historian
• Seneca (4–65), philosopher
• Pliny the Elder (23–79), botanist, natural philosopher
• Pliny the Younger (61–113), inventor, scholar and philosopher
• Marcus Aurelius (121–180),

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  Joining up the dots

  As a historian I’m a synthesist, which means that I am interested in big pictures not small details. Naturally the small details I use to create my big pictures have to be, as far as possible, factually correct but in general I rely on other historians doing so-called micro-studies to deliver the elements out of which I then create my narratives. One of my central concerns as a synthesist is the breaking down of the artificial barriers that other historians create between disciplines, countries, ages etc. In normal practice the histories of architecture, linear perspective, cartography, exploration, astronomy, typography and printing are treated as separate disciplines in what follows I want to sketch how this all hang together in Italy and Germany in the 15^th century.

  The start of my web is the fact that today in the anniversary of the death of Fillipo Brunelleschi (1377 – 15^th April 1446) who is a famous Florentine architect whose most well known m

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  Leon Battista Alberti

  After Leon Battista Alberti, it was the destiny of the Renaissance man to never be satisfied. The darting eye that flies and scans from above, that investigates and discovers before knowing, is the symbol that was chosen by the inventor of the Renaissance, a thinker who was interested in and wrote about everything over his long career. A polytropic traveller like the Greek Ulysses, a Florentine exile like Petrarch. Like the latter – and exactly one century later – Alberti came to Bologna to study Law, but he left far more enriched by the men-of-letters and scientists who gravitated around the Università degli Artisti, thanks to whom the old ‘Madre degli Studi’ could still call itself ‘Alma’.

  Leon Battista Alberti was born in 1404 in Genoa, the hometown of his mother, Bianca Fieschi, widow of a Grimaldi.  His father, Lorenzo di Benedetto Alberti, belonged to a wealthy, powerful family of Florentine merchants and bankers, exiled by their rivals, the Albizi.

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