"Review of <em>Living Well in Renaissance Italy: The Virtues of Humanis" by Brian Maxson
 

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Article

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1-1-2015

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Leon Battista Alberti wrote with a sense of irony that separated his works from his humanist contemporaries and linked him to the tradition of fourteenth-century vernacular writers, particularly Petrarch and Boccaccio. His irony was characterized by his encouragement to look for virtue beneath appearances and his distrust of equating virtue with humanist learning.

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