Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar (born 1470)

Pietro Bembo

Italian scholar, poet, and cardinal (1470–1547)

Pietro Bembo, O.S.I.H. was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance, Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect…