Bembo was a poet and treatise writer who was instrumental in establishing vernacular italian as a suitable vehicle for. Sonetto composto agli inizi del cinquecento e forse dedicato allamore per lucrezia borgia. Nov 04, 20 a famous italian scholar and cardinal, b. Pietro bembo, born may 20, 1470, venicedied january 18, 1547, rome, renaissance cardinal who wrote one of the earliest italian grammars and assisted in establishing the italian literary language. Discover lucrezia borgias love letters in milan, italy. The venetian patrician pietro bembo 14701547 is recognized today as the crucial figure in the petrarchan lyric poetry of sixteenthcentury italy. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1. Le rime ariosto, bembo, della casa pietro bembo, le rime giovanni della casa, le rime ludovico ariosto, le rime.
Pietro bembo article about pietro bembo by the free dictionary. Two of bembo s more successful poems, the short love elegies,ad melinum andfaunus ad nymphas, demonstrate two kinds ofimitatio. Portrait of pietro bembo, also called portrait of the young pietro bembo, is an oil painting by italian artist raphael. Bembos attack on dante by ann mullaney in 1525, pietro bembo published a. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your first box. This was simply a reflection of the old way of reading a canzone. Gli asolani, le prose della volgar lingua, rime, lettere. View cardinal pietro bembo research papers on academia. Celebri sono i suoi asolani, dialoghi in tre libri con alternanza di testi in prosa e poesia, e le sue rime, in particolare le stanze in stile petrarchesco, composte nel 1530, durante il soggiorno a venezia.
Prose della volgar lingua work by bembo britannica. He afterwards studied greek under lascaris at messina and philosophy under pomponazzo at padua. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Prose e rime by carlo dionisotti overdrive rakuten. Inoltre, con altre sue opere quali le epistolae e le rime. Pietro bembo italian cardinal and writer britannica. Read prose e rime by pietro bembo available from rakuten kobo. It is a member of the oldstyle of serif fonts, with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by francesco griffo for venetian printer aldus manutius, sometimes generically called the aldine roman. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Lucrezia borgias love letters milan, italy atlas obscura.
Letteratura italiana einaudi edizione di riferimento. Pietro bembo s rime, i529i535 the venetian patrician pietro bembo 1470i547 is recognized today as the crucial figure in the petrarchan lyric poetry of sixteenthcentury italy. Bembo is a very legible typeface which is frequently used for books. Pietro bembo was born in the golden age of venice, on 20 may 1470, into the old nobility. Bembo regular bembo italic bembo bold bembo bold italic what do you use bembo for. Nelle sue rime, edite prima nel 1530 e poi nel 1535. Many fonts contain alternate glyph designs for a purely esthetic effect. He left around the time of josquin des prezs hire by ercole i deste as composer to the. Publication date 1505 topics gliasolani di messer pietro bembo. Catholic encyclopedia 19pietro bembo wikisource, the. He was the son of bernardo bembo, whose enthusiasm for italian literature led him to raise a monument to dante at ravenna. This is the monotype cut, created in 1929 and published by adobe. Bembo is a serif typeface created by the british branch of the monotype corporation in 19281929 and most commonly used for body text. The influence of pietro bembo on his contemporaries and on the italian language far outstripped his talent as a writer.
Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. An application may not support the feature by which the desired glyph would normally be accessed. His poems are closely imitated from petrarch, and deserve praise mainly because of their restraint at a time when conceits were beginning to appear in italian lyrics. Bembo was for many years the arbiter of italian letters, insisting that classical traditions be preserved. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. A favorite of the medici, he was secretary to pope leo x and was made a cardinal by paul iii. Of an aristocratic family, bembo was educated principally by his father, a man of great authority in the venetian republic. Beyond this, little is known of their activities until 1537, when elisabetta caught the attention of pietro bembo. Recently bereaved of his companion, morosina, and several years shy of his elevation to cardinal, bembo corresponded frequently with elisabetta and other members of. Author of gli asolani, prose e rime, prose della volgar lingua, delle lettere di m. Pietro bembo 14701547 italian poet, theoretician, essayist, and epistler. The first book issued by aldus, lascariss greek grammar see no. At the time titian painted this portrait, bembo had recently been elevated to that status in honor of his service to the church and his scholarly career, although the writers literary output was almost entirely secular. Pietro bembo has 68 books on goodreads with 595 ratings.
Monotype gave his name to their typeface bembo of 1929. Of an aristocratic family, bembo was educated principally by his father, a. Pietro bembo crin doro crespo letteratura italiana. Eminente latinista, fue nombrado en 15 secretario del papa leon x. Ludovico ariosto, pietro bembo, giovanni della casa. Pietro bembo was an italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the knights hospitaller and a cardinal. Giuliano blames dantes teacher for these poor rhymes, saying that brunetto. His writings assisted in the 16thcentury revival of. Pietro bembo encyclopedia volume catholic encyclopedia. Was dovizi really the recipient of the sonnet mentre ii fero destin. Pietro bembo venecia, 1470roma, 1547 cardenal y humanista italiano.
Borgias life was in upheaval when she first made the acquaintance of the poet pietro bembo in 1502. The image is ostensibly a portrait of venetian cardinal pietro bembo, raphaels longtime friend. Nelle sue rime, edite prima nel 1530 e poi nel 1535, pietro bembo attua unimportante rifondazione del petrarchismo. Lucrezia borgias love letters copy link facebook twitter reddit flipboard pocket. The literary dictator of italy for more than fifty years, he was dubbed the. Propertius, ovid and two latin poems of pietro bembo. Books by pietro bembo author of history of venice, volume 1. This page was last edited on 8 december 2014, at 04. The rise of vernacular literature bembo of venice published his prose della volgar lingua writings on the vulgar tongue in 1525.
Pietro bembo s latin poetry is worth studying in its own right and for how it reflects bembo s views onimitatio andaemulatio. Bembo was ten years her senior and no one really knows the full. Nelle sue rime, edite prima nel 1530 e poi nel 1535, pietro. Pietro bembo 14701547 wears the red biretta and cape of a cardinal. Pietro bembo crin doro crespo e dambra tersa e pura. Oltre alla gravita e alla piacevolezza, quale altra qualita viene discussa nel secondo libro delle prose della volgar lingua di pietro bembo. Pietro bembo s most popular book is history of venice, volume 1. Pdf bembos attack on dante ann e mullaney academia. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. He was an influential figure in the development of the italian language, specifically tuscan, as a literary medium, codifying the language for standard modern usage. Bembo, pietro article about bembo, pietro by the free.
Pietro bembo, prose, opere in volgare, opere del cardinale pietro bembo, petri bembi epistolarum leonis decimi pont. This is what a few of the available styles look like. In this work, which was one of the first historical italian grammars, bembo demanded an italian literary language based on 14thcentury tuscan models, particularly petrarch and boccaccio. This feature makes all variations of a selected character accessible. The bembo family had been one of the first to settle on the mud flats in the northwest adriatic in the middle of the fifth century at the time of attilas invasion of the roman empire. A margine di piansi et cantai del bembo openedition journals. The italian humanist, poet, and historian pietro bembo 14701547 was the most influential man of letters during the high renaissance in italy. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The composer accented rhyme schemes with his music, but only because he obviously wished to. Giovanni della casa, le rime a cura di ottavio besomi, janina hauser e giovanni sopranzi.
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