Leone Battista Alberti

author, artist, architect, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leone_Battista_Alberti - 1404-1472

his writings http://tuttotempolibero.altervista.org/poesia/quattrocento/leonbattistaalberti.html

http://historymedren.about.com/od/awho/p/who_alberti.htm

could supposedly jump over a standing man

• http://dmurauskas.blogspot.com/2006/10/leon-battista-alberti.html

• http://www.rllmukforum.com/lofiversion/index.php?t142495.html