Pietro Bembo | |
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| Born | 20 May 1470 Venice, Republic of Venice |
| Died | 18 January 1547 (aged 76) Rome, Papal States |
| Occupation | priest, scholar, poet, and literary theorist |
| Language | Italian, Tuscan dialect |
| Genre | poetry, non-fiction |
| Literary movement | Renaissance literature, Petrarchism |
Pietro Bembo, O.S.I.H. (Latin: Petrus Bembus; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.[1] As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance (15th–16th c.), Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language for poetry and prose, which, by later codification into a standard language, became the modern Italian language. In the 16th century, Bembo's poetry, essays and books proved basic to reviving interest in the literary works of Petrarch. In the field of music, Bembo's literary writing techniques helped composers develop the techniques of musical composition that made the madrigal the most important secular music of 16th-century Italy.[2]
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Grove online