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Review of <em>Living Well in Renaissance Italy: The Virtues of Humanism and the Irony of Leon Battista Alberti</em>, by Timothy Kircher.Maxson, Brian 01 January 2015 (has links) (PDF)
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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