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 | | The first is by Antonio Averlino, called Filarete, who was a practicing architect and author of a Treatise on Architecture, written in Milan, where he served at the court of Francesco Sforza (Ludovico's father). |
 | | The second is from Baldassare Castiglione's famous Book of the Courtier, which was first published in 1528, but which was written beginning in the 1510s, and purports to tell of a conversation that took place at the court of Urbino in 1508. |
 | | Leonardo da Vinci's writings on the so-called "paragone" (comparison between the arts) mostly date from the end of the fifteenth century, while he was a member of the court of Ludovico Sforza in Milan. |
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