N o t e s (To the Introduction)

1. Paolo Pino [Dialogo di pittura. Venice, 1548. folio 2v] knew only the Latin version of Della pittura. The need for an Italian version is attested by two sixteenth-century translations. See 2 and 5, p. 35.

2. See below, p. 39.

3. C. Ceschi, 'La Madre di Leon Battista Alberti', Bolletino d'arte, 1948, 191-2.

4. L. B. Alberti, De re aedificatoria, II, ix and xi.

5. For fuller discussion of Alberti's life see Girolamo Mancini, Vita di Leon Battista Alberti [2nd ed., Florence, 1911].

6. See below, pp. 51, 55, 67, 70-1, 77-8. Also L. B. Alberti, 'Della traquillità dell'animo', Opere volgare di L. B. Alberti, Bonucci ed. [Florence, 1843-9], I, 26. 'Vita anonima', Rerum Italicarum scriptores, Lodovico Muratori, ed. [Milan, 1751], XXV, cols. 295A and 299C. Giorgio Vasari, Vite, Milanesi ed. [Florence, 1878], II, 546-7.

7. Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy [London and New York, 1951], pp. 85-7.

8. See below, p. 44.

9. Below, p. 45.

10. Below, p. 55.

11. Below, p. 55.

12. See text note 7, Book One.

13. Below, p. 43.

14. Below, p. 43.

15. Below, p. 43.

16. L. B. Alberti, 'Elementi di Pittura', Opera inedita et pauca separatim impressa, G. Mancini, ed. [Florence, 1890]. p. 48.

17. Below p. 49.

18. Below, p. 64.

19. Below, p. 50.

20. Below, p. 40.

21. See below note 48, Book One.

22. Below, pp. 79-80.

23. Below, p. 72. See also text note 36, Book Two.

24. Below, p. 89.

25. Below, p. 78.

26. Quintus Flaccus Horace. De arte poetica, lines 101-3.

27. Below, p. 77.

28. Below, p. 76.

29. Below, p. 74.

30. Below, p. 78.

31. Below, p. 75 ff.

32. Below, pp. 82, 84-5.

33. Below, pp. 75-6.

34. Below, p. 75.

35. Below, pp. 75-6.

36. Below, p. 75.

37. L. B. Alberti, De re aedificatoria, IV, ii.

38. Professors Paul O. Kristeller and Cecil Grayson have brought to my attention eight additional manuscripts of Della Pittura that I have not been able to consult.