Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian Author, Artist, Architect, Poet, Priest, Linguist, Philosopher, Cryptographer, and general Renaissance Humanist Polymath
"No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.""
"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods."
"There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect. "
"Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole."