id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
br86b280922	Maria Sole Costanzo	Leon Battista Alberti and the Languages of the Italian Humanist Quattrocento	2021		.txt	text/plain	419	11	36	My dissertation offers a reassessment of the linguistic situation of the Italian humanist Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), addressing specifically Alberti's bilingualism and the unique role that his switching between Latin and Italian, even within the same work, played in his program of self-fashioning and repatriation from exile. In fact, Leon Battista was the illegitimate offspring of the Florentine Alberti family which had been banished from Florence following the revolt of Ciompi in 1378.Born in exile in Genoa, Leon Battista was exceptional among Italian humanists of his time for his enlightened and spirited promotion of the Florentine language, which also represented a vehicle for his own social integration and repatriation from exile.	cache/br86b280922.txt	txt/br86b280922.txt