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Pietro Bembo

1470 - 1547

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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 Roman Catholic Church. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pietro Bembo has received more than 237,494 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Pietro Bembo is the 801st most popular writer (down from 683rd in 2019), the 950th most popular biography from Italy (down from 833rd in 2019) and the 71st most popular Italian Writer.

Pietro Bembo was an Italian scholar and statesman who is most famous for being the author of the first modern Italian grammar.

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Notable Works

Opere del cardinale Pietro Bembo
1808
Gli Asolani
1505
Le rime
2008
Rime di M. Pietro Bembo
1564
Prose della volgar lingua
Language Arts & Disciplines
1931
Delle lettere di M. Pietro Bembo ..
1548

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pietro Bembo ranks 801 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Litvinenko, Cesare Pavese, Ibycus, Colleen McCullough, Dio Chrysostom, and Maya Angelou. After him are Jamal Khashoggi, Sarojini Naidu, Tatian, Karl Harrer, Jan Potocki, and Thomas Hardy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Pietro Bembo ranks 8. Before him are Charles VIII of France, Piri Reis, Edward V of England, Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Martin Waldseemüller, and Hongzhi Emperor. After him are Juan Díaz de Solís, György Dózsa, Francis, Count of Vendôme, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Catherine of Navarre, and Lucrezia de' Medici. Among people deceased in 1547, Pietro Bembo ranks 6. Before him are Henry VIII of England, Hernán Cortés, Francis I of France, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, and Sebastiano del Piombo. After him are Vittoria Colonna, Saint Cajetan, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Philippa of Guelders, and Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Bembo ranks 950 out of 5,161. Before him are Ibycus (-600), Carlo Crivelli (1430), Servilia (-104), Nicola Amati (1596), Umberto Giordano (1867), and Franco Modigliani (1918). After him are Nina Ricci (1883), Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Balbases (1569), Gabriele Falloppio (1523), Filippo Maria Visconti (1392), Hugo Pratt (1927), and Jacopo Bassano (1510).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Pietro Bembo ranks 71. Before him are Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Arrigo Boito (1842), Valerius Maximus (-100), Marie Mancini (1639), Cesare Pavese (1908), and Ibycus (-600). After him are Italo Svevo (1861), Venantius Fortunatus (530), Gerard of Cremona (1114), Vittoria Colonna (1490), Stesichorus (-630), and Gaius Lucilius (-180).

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