On Leon Baptista Alberti : his literary and aesthetic theories / Mark Jarzombek
1989, 1st edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #410396
ISBN: 0262100428
Physical description; (xvi, 258 pages) : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index. Contents; Introduction -- Alberti and the autobiographical imagination -- Confrontation with the arch-aesthetic -- Encounters and misencounters in the Albertian theater -- Postscript : Alberti as architect.
Preface -- Introduction -- Alberti and the autobiographical imagination. Introduction ; De Commodis litterarum atcque incommodes ; Philodoxeus ; Leopis-Alberti ; Intercoenales ; Apollo and Virtue ; Blindness and insight ; The lost Garland and Newfound wisdom ; The mendicant exile ; Intact wisdom ; Philoponius and the twelve rings ; The writer-saint ; The five ages of history ; The winged eye-quid tum? ; The humanist drama ; Saint Potius ; Baptista ; Agnolo and Giannozzo ; Theogenius, Genipatro, and Microtiro ; Momo, Gelasto, and Enopo ; The autobiographical Trope ; Libri disvoluti -- Confrontation with the arch-aesthetic. Terminus a quo ; The human prerogative ; The lost ointment ; The art of simulation ; Civitas perverse ; The false intellectuals ; Philosophers ; The holy disciplines ; Nature as patron ; The new aesthetics ; The prince and his Ottimo Artefice ; The intact city ; A love principium Musae ; The great defect ; Microtiro ; The final Shriek -- Encounters and misencounters in the Albertian theater. The author text ; The mortal gods ; The discourse on the good and happy life ; Mother humanism ; Baptista and his texts ; Versipellem ; The civic functionary ; Operae perdae ; The humanist and the artist ; The new, artless, world ; The prophet unmasked ; Peniplusius, the true one -- Postscript. Alberti as architect -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472 Philosophy. Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472 Aesthetics. Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472 Criticism and interpretation. Aesthetics. Philosophy. Aesthetics, Italian. Architects Italy 15th century. Architecture, Renaissance Philosophy Italy. Architects Italy. Philosophy. ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General.
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