Volume 24, Number 21 & 22 · January 26, 1978
The Master Builder
By Kenneth Clark
Leon Battista Alberti
by Franco Borsi, translated by Rudolf G. Carpanini
Harper & Row, 397, 386 illustrations pp., $55.00
Leon Battista Alberti was not a modest man. The piece of writing referred to by scholars as the Anonymous Biography, because it is written in the third person, is an obvious self-portrait. 'In all by which praise was won,' he writes,
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