Preface
Introduction

Alberti and the Autobiographical Imagination

Introduction
De Commodis Litterarum Atque Incommodis
Philodoxeus
Leopis-Alberti
Intercoenales
Apollo and Virtue
Blindness and Insight
The Lost Garland and Newfound Wisdom
The Mendicant Exile
Intact Wisdom
Philoponius and the Twelve Rings
The Writer-Saint
The Five Ages of History
The Winged Eye—Quid Tum?
The Humanist Drama
Saint Potitus
Baptista
Agnolo and Giannozzo
Theogenius, Genipatro, and Microtiro
Gelastus and Enopus
The Autobiographical Trope
Libri Disvoluti

Confrontation with the Arch-Aesthetic

Terminus a Quo
The Human Prerogative
The Lost Ointment
The Art of Simulation
Civitas Perversa
The False Intellectuals
Philosophers
The Holy Disciplines
Nature as Patron
The Belated Aesthetics
The Prince and His Ottimo Artefice
The Intact City
A love Principium Musae
The Great Defect
Microtiro
The Final Shriek

Encounters and Misencounters in the Albertian Theater

The Author-Text
The Mortal Gods
The Discourse on the Good and Happy Life
Mother Humanism
Baptista and his Texts
Versipellem
The Civic Functionary
Operae Perdae
The Humanist and the Artist
The New—Artless—World
The Prophet Unmasked
Peniplusius: The True One

Postscript: Alberti as Architect

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