Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Italian scholar, poet and cardinal. Bembo's most influential work was 'Prose della volgar lingua' (1525) on how to write poe
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Italian scholar, poet and cardinal. Bembo's most influential work was 'Prose della volgar lingua' (1525) on how to write poetry in Italian (reviving interest in Petrarch). Bembo, who also wrote on history and music, was made a cardinal in 1539 by Pope Paul III. This woodcut portrait is from 'Cosmographie universelle' (1575) by the French explorer and writer Andre Thevet (1516-1590). This book described the history and geography of the lands in which Thevet had travelled. The two volumes and four tomes contain over 1000 pages divided into 23 books. This portrait is from chapter II of book XVIII.
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