Leon Battista Alberti, Italian author, poet, and philosopher (born 1404)

Leon Battista Alberti

Italian architect and author (1404-1472)

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of European cryptography, a claim he shares…