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Leon Battista Alberti

Born on February 14, 1404

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Leon Battista Alberti (Italian:; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.

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