Bernardo Bembo

Bernardo Bembo (19 October 1433 – 28 May 1519) was a Venetian humanist, diplomat and statesman.[1] He was the father of Pietro Bembo.[2]

Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man with a Roman Medal (c. 1480) may be a portrait of Bembo[3]
  1. ^ Angelo Ventura and Marco Pecoraro, "Bembo, Bernardo", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 8 (Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1966).
  2. ^ Gianvito Resta, "Bembo, Bernardo", in Enciclopedia Dantesca (Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1970).
  3. ^ Gareth D. Williams, Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist (Oxford University Press, 2017), p. 279.