ALBERTI, LEANDRO. — Born in Bologna in 1479 and died there in 1551. He entered the Dominican Order at the age of 16 and was a student of theology under Fr. Francesco da Priero. He accompanied the Order’s General as Provincial of the Holy Land and served as Inquisitor General. He was highly learned and greatly esteemed in his time.
He left no fewer than twenty works of varying value, some of which are notable for their historical data: *Descrittione di tutta l'Italia* (Bologna 1550); *Ephemerides ab adventu Ludovici XII Galliae regis in Italiam usque ad annum 1552* (manuscript in the University Library of Bologna); *Historie di Bologna* (I and II, Bologna 1541-90; the remainder is a manuscript in the University Library of Bologna); *De viris illustribus Ord. Praedicatorum* (Bologna 1517); etc.