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Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti, self-portrait plaque, bronze, c. 1435; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Leon Battista Alberti received his early formal humanist education at a boarding school in Padua, which he attended at age 10 or 11. During his time there, he studied under the noted teacher Gasparino da Barzizza, who was highly influential in the development of humanism in the region. Through this classical training, Alberti became an accomplished Latinist and literary stylist.12