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Antonio Averlino, known as Filarete, represents a paradigmatic figure of an alternative Renaissance—one that revives medieval traditions and implies a personal interpretation of Antiquity. Although he proudly identified himself as Florentine, he ventured well beyond the borders of his native city and engaged with all the major centers of north-central Italy. Like Brunelleschi, Francesco di Giorgio, Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo, Filarete embraced a Renaissance vision of artistic universality, where architecture was one of many practices and not necessarily the primary one.