The Audiobook for Michael Anthony Alberta's Newest Release, "The Renaissance Man," Drops Mid-February

Miami Beach, FL, January 21, 2023 --(PR.com)-- Considered "the father of cryptography," Alberti was synonymous with secrets. The Vatican hired Alberti to construct more than buildings. He analyzed protocols to prevent outsiders from reading private info for the Church. Alberti introduced the polyalphabetic cipher to conceal classified information. His methods of encryption used art, writing, and mechanical aids.

Alberti had plenty of time in Rome to study its old sites, ruins, and objects. His other major work, De re aedificatoria (1452), clearly emulates De architectura by Vitruvius (30 BC). Looking further into Vitruvius, Michael read about this Russian mathematician named Anatoly Fomenko (1945-). Fomenko developed a statistical method that professedly proved Alberti was Vitruvius. Moreover, Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man came from the proportions of the human body, as described in Vitruvius' De architectura 3.1.2–3.

Alberti's most important patron, Pope Nicholas V (1397–1455), is well documented to have funded translations and architecture related to the distant past. Conveniently, the final decline of the Byzantines, hence the Roman Empire's fall, was under Pope Nicholas V's watch. The fall of Constantinople (1453) led to the migration of scholars and texts directly to Alberti (and his colleagues at the Neoplatonic Florentine Academy).

Ironically, the invention of a mechanical movable type called the Printing Press popped up simultaneously. This was widely regarded as the most critical event of the 2nd millennium. A full range of counterfeits ensued here, including the most famous historians, poets, playwrights, and philosophers. Most of which are superimposed "phantoms" of 15th-century figures.

Cataclysms like the Black Death reduced the world population in half during this time. Such catastrophes mirror events with remarkably similar characters over vast periods. Plague enabled Alberti to assign different dates and locations to various accounts of the same recorded events, creating multiple "copies" of these events.

3 inventions, in particular, the printing press, firearms, and the nautical compass were invented in Alberti's lifetime. Such innovations allowed him to communicate, exercise power, and finally travel at distances unimaginable in earlier times. For example, the Florentine cosmographer Paolo Toscanelli and Alberti collaborated in map-making through astronomy (a close science to geography at that time), producing "Descriptio Urbis Romae." Toscanelli provided Columbus with the map that guided him on his 1st voyage.