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BEMBO, PIETRO (1470—1547)

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BEMBO, PIETRO (1470—1547) , See also:Italian See also:cardinal and See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Venice on the loth of May 1470. While still a boy he accompanied his See also:father to See also:Florence, and there acquired a love for that Tuscan See also:form of speech which he afterwards cultivated in preference to the See also:dialect of his native See also:city. Having completed his studies, which included two years' devotion to See also:Greek under See also:Lascaris at See also:Messina, he See also:chose the ecclesiastical profession. After a considerable See also:time spent in various cities and courts of See also:Italy, where his learning already made him welcome, he accompanied Giulio de' See also:Medici to See also:Rome, where he was soon after appointed secretary to See also:Leo X. On the pontiff's See also:death he retired, with impaired See also:health, to See also:Padua, and there lived for a number of years engaged in See also:literary labours and amusements. In 1529 he accepted the See also:office of historiographer to his native city, and shortly afterwards was appointed librarian of St See also:Mark's. The offer of a cardinal's See also:hat by See also:Pope See also:Paul III. took him in 1539 again to Rome, where he renounced the study of classical literature and devoted himself to See also:theology and classical See also:history, receiving before See also:long the See also:reward of his See also:conversion in the shape of the bishoprics of See also:Gubbio and See also:Bergamo. He died on the 18th of See also:January 1547. Bembo, as a writer, is the beau ideal of a purist. The exact See also:imitation of the See also:style of the genuine See also:classics was the highest perfection at which he aimed. This at once prevented the See also:graces of spontaneity and secured the beauties of See also:artistic elaboration. One cannot fail to be struck with the Ciceronian See also:cadence that guides the See also:movement even of his Italian writings.

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works (collected edition, Venice, 1729) include a History of Venice (1551) from 1487 to 1513, dialogues, poems, and what we would now See also:call essays. Perhaps the most famous are a little See also:treatise on Italian See also:prose, and a See also:dialogue entitled Gli Asolani, in which Platonic See also:affection is explained and recommended in a rather long-winded See also:fashion, to the amusement of the reader who remembers the relations of the beautiful Morosina with the author. The edition of See also:Petrarch's Italian Poems, published by Aldus in 1501, and the Terzerime, which issued from the same See also:press in 1502, were edited by Bembo, who was on intimate terms with the See also:great typographer. See Opere de P. Bembo (Venice, 1729) ; Casa, Vita di Bembo, in 2nd vol. of his works.

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