The Italian humanist, poet, and historian Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) was the most influential man of letters during the High Renaissance in Italy. Pietro Bembo was born in Venice. His learned father, Bernardo, was prominent in civic and diplomatic...

Pietro Bembo Lover, Linguist, Cardinal Carol Kidwell McGill-Queen's University Press 538pp 29.95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0773527095 THAT PIETRO BEMBO IS REMEMBERED at all today, at least in Britain, is because he was thrice-immortalized: by the love letters he exchanged with Lucrezia Borgia;...

La biblioteca del Cardinal Pietro Bembo. By MASSIMO DANZI. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 399) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 470 pp.; 28 illustrations. SwF 132. ISBN 2-600-00924-8. The library assembled by the Venetian patrician Bernardo Bembo (1433-1519) and his son Pietro (1470-1547) was one...

In the following essay, Kennedy discusses Bembo's analysis of Petrarch's poetry in the Prose della volgar lingua and then examines Bembo's application of Petrarchism in his own poetry.

In the essay below, Braden analyzes conventions of Petrarchan love poetry that Bembo employs in his letters to Lucrezia Borgia and Maria Savorgnan.

In the following essay, Richardson traces how Bembo circulated his poems in manuscript while at the same time he “set about using the resources of the Venetian printing industry in order to consolidate and enhance his reputation as a poet.”