Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Renaissance polymath who basically invented European cryptography and also happened to be an architect, poet, priest, linguist, and philosopher. Alberti did it all in the 1400s.
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Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of European cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.
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