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Leon Battista Alberti as Author of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

March, Lionel

Abstract The enigmatic Hypnerotomachia Poliphili published anonymously in 1499 has long posed puzzles for historians and other scholars. This present text argues that the volume can credibly be attributed, not to Francesca Colonna as is often done, but to the Renaissance humanist and polymath Leon Battista Alberti. Evidence for this is found in the unravelling of arithmogrammatical evidence sprinkled throughout the work, similar to those found in other of Alberti’s works.

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Leon Battista Alberti as Author of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

March, Lionel

Abstract The enigmatic Hypnerotomachia Poliphili published anonymously in 1499 has long posed puzzles for historians and other scholars. This present text argues that the volume can credibly be attributed, not to Francesca Colonna as is often done, but to the Renaissance humanist and polymath Leon Battista Alberti. Evidence for this is found in the unravelling of arithmogrammatical evidence sprinkled throughout the work, similar to those found in other of Alberti’s works.

Leon Battista Alberti as Author of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

March, Lionel

Abstract The enigmatic Hypnerotomachia Poliphili published anonymously in 1499 has long posed puzzles for historians and other scholars. This present text argues that the volume can credibly be attributed, not to Francesca Colonna as is often done, but to the Renaissance humanist and polymath Leon Battista Alberti. Evidence for this is found in the unravelling of arithmogrammatical evidence sprinkled throughout the work, similar to those found in other of Alberti’s works.

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Title:

Leon Battista Alberti as Author of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Contributors:

March, Lionel (author)

Published in:

Nexus Network Journal ; 17 ; 697-721

Publication date:

2015-08-20

Size:

25 pages

ISSN:

1522-4600 , 1590-5896

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-015-0262-8

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

Language:

English

Keywords:

Leon Battista Alberti , Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , Number symbolism , Gematria , Geometry , Ratios Mathematics , Mathematics, general , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics , Popular Science, general , History, general

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