Leon Battista Alberti
CountryItaly
LanguagesNeo-Latin
Dates1404 — 1472
artists
medieval europe
renaissance
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 with Johannes Trithemius.— Wikipedia
