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    "pk": 41092,
    "title": "“Equally unknown and unimaginable among the ancients”: Brunelleschi’s Dome and Alberti’s \nLingua Toscana",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Leon Battista Alberti’s vernacular treatise on painting, \nDella Pittura\n (1436), is usually characterized as a translation, aimed at artists, of his Latin\n De Pictura\n.  Questioning that premise, this article situates the \nvolgare treatise\n and its attached dedication letter to the architect Filippo Brunelleschi within the 1430’s language debates over the role and status of the vernacular, commonly referred to as the \nQuestione della lingua.\n In this context, \nDella Pittura\n served as a persuasive rebuke to humanists who suspected the young language, without a basis in ancient texts, was unable to give voice to a learned treatise.  Alberti cleverly argues that the stupendously novel topics and techniques he addresses in the treatise (fifteenth-century painting and linear perspective) and in the letter (the Cathedral of Florence dome and its inventive construction) require an equally innovative language, his \nlingua toscana\n.  Rather than striving to restore ancient Latin and in turn revive ancient culture, Alberti calls his contemporaries to build a modern language, capable of capturing and conveying the artistic and architectural innovations of his age.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Alberti"
        },
        {
            "word": "Brunelleschi"
        },
        {
            "word": "Classical, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology"
        },
        {
            "word": "Italian Language and Literature"
        }
    ],
    "section": "A. Futures Past 1: Italy's Early Modernities",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9009k258",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Heather",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Horton",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The City University of New York",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2010-12-01T17:32:05Z",
    "date_accepted": "2010-12-01T17:32:05Z",
    "date_published": "2011-12-16T08:00:00Z",
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}