Leon Battista Alberti
Late statue of Leon Battista Alberti. Courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery , Florence
Born	Leon Battista Alberti ( 1404-02-18 ) 18 February 1404 Genoa , Italy
Died	25 April 1472 (1472-04-25) (aged 68) Rome
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Architecture , Linguistics , Poetry
Notable work	Tempio Malatestiano , Palazzo Rucellai , Santa Maria Novella
Movement	Italian Renaissance

Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 ? April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect , poet , priest , linguist , philosopher , and cryptographer , and general Renaissance humanist polymath . In Italy , this first name is usually spelled " Leone ", but Alberti is known as Leon. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari 's Vite . Alberti is often seen as a model of the Renaissance "universal man“.- He was born in Genoa, because the Albertis had been expelled from their native city, Florence.  When he was a child the family moved to Venice. In 1428 Leon visited Florence at first time.

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