The collection of articles by recognized experts in the history of the Italian Renaissance is dedicated to Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) - the writer, philosopher, architect and art theorist - the largest representative of the humanistic culture of Italy. Alberti was a friend not only of all the major humanists, but also of artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello and Luca della Robbia, scholars such as Toscanelli, strongmen such as Pope Nicholas V, Piero and Lorenzo Medici, Giovanni Francesco and Lodovico Gonzaga, Sigismondo Malatesta, Lionello d'Este, Federigo de Montefeltro.