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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: 1472 births, 1472 deaths, 1472 establishments, 1472 in law, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Leon Battista Alberti, Fra Bartolomeo, Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy, Basilios Bessarion, Shin Sawbu, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Richard Cholmondeley, Wang Yangming, Nezahualcoyotl, Jean Mielot, Bianca Maria Sforza, Afanasy Nikitin, Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendome, Simon of Trent, University of Ingolstadt, Charles de Valois, Duc de Berry, Gregory of Heimburg, Pedro Luis de Borja Lanzol de Romani, Balthasar of aga, Michelozzo, Nikolaus von Schonberg, Janos Vitez, Luca Pitti, Pietro Torrigiano, Infante John, Duke of Viseu, Alberto III Pio, Prince of Carpi, Treaty of Prenzlau, Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran, Nicholas Jacquier, List of state leaders in 1472, Janus Pannonius, Margaret of York, Gaston IV, Count of Foix, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre, Margaret Spencer, Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, Charles, Count of Maine, Erard de La Marck, Blanche of Montferrat, Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, Hans Pleydenwurff, Christoph Schappeler, Walter Hart, Eleanor Percy, Countess of Northumberland, John Hygdon, Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, Kebek Sultan, Heinrich Bebel, Takatsukasa Fusahira, Konoe Hisamichi, Giovanni di Bardo Corsi, Liu Jue, Peter Luder. Excerpt: Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 - April 20, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath: though he is often characterized as "architect" James Beck observes, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts." Alberti's l...