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This article discusses McLaughlin's comprehensive analysis of Alberti's literary works, highlighting his contribution to scholarship.
Leon Battista Alberti’s constant pursuit of originality generated a prolific and profoundly interdisciplinary corpus which, however, is seldom examined as a whole. The scholarship of Martin McLaughlin (1950–2025) has greatly enriched our understanding of Alberti’s multifaceted talents as a writer. His final book, Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist , provides the first comprehensive analysis in English of Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and the Italian vernacular. This article discusses McLaughlin’s seminal volume, which explores many common elements between Alberti’s philosophical dialogues, moral treatises, and technical works, and reflects on McLaughlin’s vast contribution to Alberti scholarship and Italian Studies.
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