We are glad to announce that Angelo Pontecorboli Editore has just published the latest book by Marco Mendogni. Entitled Piero della Francesca: Light and Mathematics and prefaced by Stefano U. Baldassarri (Director, ISI Florence), this essay pursues a challenging task: to investigate, in a semi-popular vein, the origins and developments of Piero della Francesca’s aesthetics and his mathematical thought. To this purpose, Mendogni makes extensive use of quotations from primary sources (providing them both in Italian translation and in their original language, which is mostly Latin), numerous color images of paintings and manuscripts (including some in Piero’s own hand), and precise descriptions of the environments in which this artist lived, from the Florence of the 1439 Council to the Rome of Pope Pius II (r. 1458-1464).

Among the many protagonists one finds in this study, three are given supplementary information in an appendix: the eclectic humanist Leon Battista Alberti, the cardinal and theologian Nicholas of Cusa, and the mathematician Fra Luca Pacioli. As for the sources that Mendogni investigates and illustrates in this fascinating study, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite stands out, especially for his emphasis on the spiritual meaning of light.

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