Author: LEFAIVRE Liane :
Title: Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance.
Description: .: 3. Cambdrige / London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977, 28 x 20 cm, (4) + 298 pp, 70 ills., bibl., index, maroon boards, gilt lettering, orig. d.w., good copy. The book's typography is styled after its renowned subject. The author, a researcher at the Technical University of Delft, was the first to attribute the Hypnerotomachia to Alberti, a humanist wanting to defend his views when he was sacked by the pope after thirty years of service. .

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