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Leon Battista Alberti

1404 to 1472 4 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Leon Battista Alberti across 3 places, from 1404 to 1472. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Leon Battista Alberti (14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Leon Battista Alberti was documented, and when

1404year
Genoaattested “Leon Battista Alberti was born in 1404 in Genoa.” source: Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti
1431year
Florenceattested “He lived for a time in Florence, then in 1431 travelled to Rome, where he took holy orders and entered the service of the papal court.” source: Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti
1431year
Romeattested “He lived for a time in Florence, then in 1431 travelled to Rome, where he took holy orders and entered the service of the papal court.” source: Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti
25 April 1472exact date
Romeattested “He always lived honourably and like the gentleman he was." Alberti died in Rome on 25 April 1472 at the age of 68.” source: Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti

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Places Leon Battista Alberti is documented in

Rome2 presences · 1431 to 1472Florence1 presence · 1431Genoa1 presence · 1404

Other places tied to Leon Battista Alberti in the record

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Florencementioned “In 1435 he began his first major written work, Della pittura, which was inspired by the burgeoning pictorial art in Florence in the early fifteenth century.” source: Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti
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Florencementioned “His first major architectural commission was in 1446 for the façade of the Rucellai Palace in Florence.” source: Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti
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Vatican Citymentioned “In 1447 Alberti became architectural advisor to Pope Nicholas V and was involved in several projects at the Vatican.” source: Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti
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Riminimentioned “This was followed in 1450 by a commission from Sigismondo Malatesta to transform the Gothic church of San Francesco in Rimini into a memorial chapel, the Tempio Malatestiano.” source: Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti

Documented at the same place, the same year

Pope Martin VRome · 1431

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