Leandro Alberti
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Leandro Alberti (1479–1552) was an Italian Dominican historian.
Life
Alberti was born and died at Bologna. In his early youth he attracted the attention of the Bolognese rhetorician, Giovanni Garzoni, who volunteered to act as his tutor. He entered the Dominican Order in 1493, and after the completion of his philosophical and theological studies was called to Rome by his friend, the Master General, Francesco Silvestri of Ferrara, called "Ferrariensis".[1] He served him as secretary and socius until the death of Silvestri in 1528.
Works
In 1517, Alberti published in six books a treatise on the famous men of his order (De viris illustribus Ordinis Praedicatorum, Bologna 1517), that is still profitably consulted.
The fame of Alberti rests chiefly on his Descrizione d'Italia (Bologna, 1550) a book in which are found many valuable topographical and archaeological observations. Many of the
His explanations of the prophecies of
Notes
- ^ a b Redigonda 1967.
References
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- Redigonda, A. L. (1967). "Alberti, Leandro". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Jeffrey A. White (2019). "Chorography as Culture: Biondo Flavio and Leandro Alberti" (PDF). Commentaria Classica. 6: 61–84. ISSN 2283-5652.
- Redigonda, Abele L. (1960). "ALBERTI, Leandro". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Leandro Alberti". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.