Italy: Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472), Italian artist, architect, cryptographer, linguist, philosopher and writer. 19th century statue outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Sculpted by Giovanni Lusini

Leon Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man.

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