Person
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, and humanist polymath
Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472) is an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath.
Alberti's life is described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori or 'Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects'.