Talk:Leone Battista Alberti
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I have a nice photograph of the Trevi Fountain. I took this picture last yeat during a travel to Rome and I would like to submit it under FDL to Wikipedia.
Who shall I contact for that? Should I resize the picture and provide it in a specific format (well, I can do that easily with GIMP)?
I read in How does one edit a page that I should e-mail it, but where will it be located after?
Thanks for helping!
Ok, this image is now available on my own website. Its intermediate size is adapted for being included in a Wikipedia article and should fit perfectly.
Get the image of the Trevi Fountain (http://vbeaud.free.fr/Documents/Rome/jpeg/Trevi_Fountain.jpg) here...
Wait! The Trevi fountain AS IT APPEARS TODAY is a much later object. It wasn't finished until the 18th century. If anything is left of Alberti's work, it's in the plumbing system.--MichaelTinkler
Leone Battista or Leon Battista?
He is generally known as Leon in Italy, but having to fix a redirect, I'd need some hints from the English-speaking world. Thank you :-) --Gianfranco
Come on.. no mention that he was able to leap over a man's head from a standing start? ;) (c.f., Renaissance Man the movie) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:23, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Rats! I forgot to mention that he was faster than a speeding bullet. As for the leaping, he could do tall buildings at a single bound. I know of nothing on his strengh, but he was related to my grandfather Stonebender, so we might be able to deduce something from that. Can we put that in? ww 16:48, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Birthdate
We had in the article that Alberti was born on the 14th of February, but several places put it at 18th Februrary instead (e.g. Catholic encyclopedia). february 1404 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=alberti+february+1404&btnG=Google+Search|alberti) doesn't seem conclusive. I've temporarily removed the precise date from the article. — Matt 13:38, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Britannica has him down as born Feb. 14, 1404 in Genoa. — Matt 14:23, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I Libri della Famiglia
Recent scholars have been bewitched by Alberti's "Libri"--translated in the U of S. Carolina Press as "The Family in Renaissance Italy." It's a heyday for feminists, of course. But any economic historian interested in the evolution of the European "oikos" should probably know about it, too.
Reading the book, you really get a sense of Alberti's genius and his "nervous" frailties. I would describe it as a cross of Machievelli's Prince and Weber's Protestant Ethic. Really absolutely fascinating.
composer?
I am unable to find any evidence that he was a composer, or that any music survives which can be reliably attributed to him. There is no entry on him in the 20-volume Grove Dictionary (note that there were at least seven other Albertis who were composers, including Antonio degli Alberti (1360-1415), Domenico (the most famous), Gasparo (1480-1560), Giuseppe, Innocentio, Johann Friedrich, and Pietro--I just want to make sure whoever put him in the Italian composers category made sure he wasn't confused with one of these). Sorry about being pedantic ... :-) Antandrus 23:42, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)