ALBERTI, LEANDRO. — Born in Bologna in 1479 and died there in 1551. He became a Dominican at the age of 16 and studied theology under Fr. Francesco da Priero. Companion of the Master General of the Order with the title of provincial of the Holy Land, inquisitor general, highly learned and greatly esteemed in his time.
He left no fewer than about twenty works of varying merit, some of which are of interest for their historical data: Descrittione di tutta l’Italia (Bologna 1550); Ephemerides ab adventu Ludovici XII Galliae regit in Irodiam usque ad annum 1552 (manuscript in the University Library of Bologna); Historie di Bologna (I and II, Bologna 1541–90; the remainder in manuscript in the University Library of Bologna); De viris illustribus Ord. Praedicatorum (Bologna 1517); etc.