1404 CE - 1472 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti.

1404 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti is born in Genoa.

1428 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti receives his doctorate in canon law from the University of Bologna.

1432 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti begins to work in Rome as a papal secretary.

1432 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti writes his treatise Della famiglia (On the Family).

1435 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti writes his treatise De pictura (On Painting).

1447 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti becomes the architectural adviser of Pope Nicholas V.

1450 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the facade for the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini.

1450 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence.

1452 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti writes his treatise on architecture, On Building (De Re Aedificatoria).

1456 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti translates his treatise on architecture, On Building (De Re Aedificatoria) into the Tuscan vernacular.

1458 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the new facade for the Santa Maria Novella church in Florence.

1460 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the San Sebastiano church in Mantua.

1464 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti writes his treatise on sculpture.

1470 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the Basilica San Andrea in Mantua.

1472 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti dies in Rome.