Volume 48, Number 14 · September 20, 2001

The Lion of Florence

By Joseph Connors
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance
by Anthony Grafton

Hill and Wang, 417 pp., $35.00

On Alberti and the Art of Building
by Robert Tavernor

Yale University Press, 278 pp., $60.00

'A solution must be found. After so much has been spoken and written, it was a question both of science and national pride, a debt of honor to the dignity of our Nation.'



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