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  • Alberti was also occupied by the dialectic of the vita activa – vita contemplativa. 33 Through his own treatise on the subject, De commodis literarum atque incommodis,34 and a study of the Florentine family, Della famiglia,35 Alberti deeply influenced a younger generation of powerful and wealthy soldier-scholars, including Leonello d'Este and Federico, who negotiated their turbulent political climate as much by tactical eloquence as by militaristic valor.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Novi meis diebus, plerosque studiis literarum deditos, qui disciplinis admodum abundabant, sed si nihil civilitatis habent, nec rem publ. nec domesticam regere norant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aquila In nubibus Imperator literatorum, columen literarum, abyssus eruditionis, ocellus Europae, Scaliger.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Oppressus paupertate animus nihil eximium, aut sublime cogitare potest, amoenitates literarum, aut elegantiam, quoniam nihil praesidii in his ad vitae commodum videt, primo negligere, mox odisse incipit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Immortalitatem beneficio literarum, immortali gloriosa quadam cupiditate concupivit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Studia literarum et animi perturbationes fugiat, et quantum potest jucunde vivat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ineruditi fures, &c. A fault that every writer finds, as I do now, and yet faulty themselves, [81] Trium literarum homines, all thieves; they pilfer out of old writers to stuff up their new comments, scrape Ennius 'dunghills, and out of [82] Democritus' pit, as

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Iudæorum ingredi sinun, templum, reputantes eos indignos ad hoc, et nimium immundos, vndè nisi virtute literarum quas habui a Soldano, nec ego fuissem ingressus.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Ioannes Mandeuil, vir equestris ordinis, ex fano Albini oriundus, ita à teneris vt aiunt, vnguiculis literarum studijs assueuerat, vt in illis bonam foelicitatis suæ partem poneret.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Interpretatio tamen literarum Domini Papæ, ac verba etiam à nobis dicta, à prædicto Baty erant ei mandata.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

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