While the Swedish translation is pub­lish­ed with only a short Preface, Bek’s translation is more, much more, than just the first Danish translation of Alberti’s tract. The translation itself covers pp. 241-309, and is preceded by a lengthy essay on Alberti and his place in the Italian Renaissance. However introductory in plan and com­po­si­tion, the scope of this Introduction is closer to that of a monograph; rather, it is a biographical, hist­or­ical and intellectual survey of Alberti, the Florentine Renaissance, and the humanist ideals of the time, but with steady and continuous reference to Alberti’s tract.