Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Essex
Book title
Humanism and the Urban World: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Penn State University Press
ISBN of book
9780271048550
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
The book is a substantial monograph on a key aspect of the writings of the major Renaissance thinker: Leon Battista Alberti. It is broad in scope and ranges across a large swath of Alberti’s very extensive writings, taking in both Latin and vernacular Italian texts. The fruit of many years of research, beginning with a doctoral thesis, the book develops a complex argument across several chapters. It has been positively reviewed as a “concise and excellent” book that offers “imaginative and exhaustive” readings of Alberti’s work. The material presented in the book could have been published as several substantial articles.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
