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The town's center reflects the humanist ideals of Leon Battista Alberti, who consulted Pius II on his building ambitions.

Creating meaningful cities by Deupi, Victor / Modern Age

Out goes the house-like image of the medieval cosmos, and Harries highlights the influential philosophical realignments framed by the Renaissance scholar Nicholas of Cusa, alongside the exploration of perspective by his contemporary Leon Battista Alberti, a philosophical and practical construct that located man at the centre of the universe.

Infinity and Perspective. (Hero to Infinity) by Tavernor, Robert / The Architectural Review

At various points he calls upon, to select only a few of almost countless examples, the twelfth-century moralist Peter the Chanter, Dante's thirteenth-century friend Brunetto Latini, the fourteenth-century poets William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer, the fifteenth-century essayists Leon Battista Alberti and Christine de Pizan and the philosopher Marsilio Ficino, and the sixteenth-century satirists Francois Rabelais and Pietro Aretino.

Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. ... by Farr, James R. / Journal of Social History

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