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Leon Battisa Alberti was born on 14th February 1404 in Genoa and died in Rome on 25th April, 1472. He was an Italian humanist, architect and is considered to be the main initiator of the Renaissance art theory. He is considered to he the epitome of the universal Renaissance man.
Alberti was born into the class and society where he was gifted with intellectual and moral tendencies which he was able to express and develop over a lifetime. He belonged to one of the wealthy merchant families in Florence
His treatise “Della famiglia” (“On the Family”), which he began in Rome in 1432, is the first of several dialogues on moral philosophy upon which his reputation as an ethical thinker and literary stylist largely rests.He wrote these dialogues in the vernacular, expressly for a broad urban public that would not be skilled in Latin: for the non litteratissimi cittadini, as he called them. In Alberti’s dialogues the ethical ideals of the ancient world are made to foster a distinctively modern outlook: a morality founded upon the idea of work. Virtue has become a matter of action, not of right thinking. It arises not out of serene detachment but out of striving, labouring, producing.
Source - Britannica.com