Leon Battista Alberti

de Francesco Furlan, Pierre Laurens, Sylvain Matton

Leon Battista Alberti (Italy 1404-1472) is considered a man of universal knowledge, promoter of new forms of rationality, either by the texts he wrote, by the works he left, or for the active and intervening life in the Italian Renaissance. Thus, this event is dedicated to his work, his formulations, assimilations and dissemination in the various fields of Art, Architecture and Culture, but also to the various legacies of the tradition of the Humanities, through the study and dissemination of history, literature, thought, science and the arts of the tradition of antiquity, humanism itself and the Renaissance in its broadest sense. This meeting follows four previous colloquia - held in Belo Horizonte (2011), Coimbra (2013), Córdoba/Argentina (2015) and Paris (2015) - and which aimed to define, in addition to the traditional categories of historiography, these new forms of rationality that the peculiar approach of knowledge given by Alberti engendered in all fields - of an artistic, technical nature, moral, political and cultural - as well as gauge his critical fortune through time, to our day. The ambition of this set of events is to disseminate Albertan studies and promote the exchange of ideas and research among scholars of different nationalities, from Europe and Latin America. Leon Battista Alberti (Italy 1404-1472) is considered a man of universal knowledge, promoter of new forms of rationality, either by the texts he wrote, by the works he left, or for the active and intervening life in the Italian Renaissance. Thus, this event is dedicated to his work, his formulations, assimilations and dissemination in the various fields of Art, Architecture and Culture, but also to the various legacies of the tradition of the Humanities, through the study and dissemination of history, literature, thought, science and the arts of the tradition of antiquity, humanism itself and the Renaissance in its broadest sense. This meeting follows four previous colloquia - held in Belo Horizonte (2011), Coimbra (2013), Córdoba/Argentina (2015) and Paris (2015) - and which aimed to define, in addition to the traditional categories of historiography, these new forms of rationality that the peculiar approach of knowledge given by Alberti engendered in all fields - of an artistic, technical nature, moral, political and cultural - as well as gauge his critical fortune through time, to our day. The ambition of this set of events is to disseminate Albertan studies and promote the exchange of ideas and research among scholars of different nationalities, from Europe and Latin America.