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Leon Battista Alberti

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Profession
Architect
Died
Apr 20, age 68
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
GenoaItaly
About
Best remembered for such architectural masterpieces as the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai (both in Florence, Italy), this fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance figure also wrote poems and artistic treatises and pursued a career in cryptography.
Family
He was born in Genoa, Italy, as the illegitimate son of a Florentine nobleman.

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