In his work "On the Family" he tackled the problems of the bourgeois life through the eyes of Cicero and Seneca.  
In his work "On the Family" he tackled the problems of the bourgeois life through the eyes of Cicero and Seneca.  He served as secretary for six popes, including Eugene IV and Nicholas V, who started him on a rebuilding project for Saint Peter's.  He left behind two major creations in Mantua, San Sebastiano and San Andrea, though it was ultimately his pupils that carried out his two most famous designs, the Palazzo Rucellai and the Church of Santa Maria Novella.  FTP, name this author of On Painting and De Re Aedificatoria, a 15th-century Florentine architect.
In his work "On the Family" he tackled the problems of the bourgeois life through the eyes of Cicero and Seneca.  
Leon Battista Alberti