Noctua (Feb 2020)

Un frammento inedito di Leon Battista Alberti sul fuoco

  • Franco Bacchelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaVII1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. VII, no. 1
pp. 1 – 67

Abstract

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The author publishes the initial fragment of an unknown treatise by Leon Battista Alberti on the casting of statues written around 1455 and preserved in cod. Ottob. lat. 1870. The fragment contains a discussion on the nature of light and the element of fire.

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