See also: Bembo

Pietro Bembo , born the May 20th 1470 with Venice, dead the January 18th 1547 with Rome, cardinal and writer of a family Patrician of Venice.

It was distinguished as of its youth by its spirit, and made its studies in large the courses of Italy: with Florence, Ferrare and Urbin. Raise Lascaris, it turns to the clergy. He enjoys the favor of princes de Ferrare and Urbin, as well as that of the pope Leon X and of his successors.

He accompanies Clément VII in Rome and becomes secretary for the Latin letters of Leon X, which granted rich person benefit to him. With died from the pope, it was withdrawn in Venice, where it became preserving Bibliothèque of Saint-Marc. Paul III named it cardinal in 1539. Bembo is less famous for its galantery than by its spirit; before being ordered it had had several children of a named woman Morosina , which it celebrated in its worms.

Publications

Its Œuvres was published in Basle, 1567, 3 volumes in-8, and more completely in Venice in 1729, 4 folio volumes. They include/understand:

• of various Latin and Italian poetries (Sonnet S, Canzone, etc) in whom it imitated Pétrarque;
• of the dialogs on the love (Gli Asolani , written with the castle of Azola) printed in France by Jean Martin;
• a History of Venice , in Latin, and a great number of letters.

In its Latin writings, Bembo especially attempted to reproduce the style of Cicéron.

The Asolani were translated into French by Jean Martin, Paris, 1845.

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