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Bembo, Pietro

Born: Venice, 20 May 1470

Died: Rome, 18 January 1547

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Pietro Bembo was a humanist, writer, and poet. The author of the Prose della volgar lingua (1525), a work that set the standard of written Italian for the centuries to follow, he was also the editor of fundamental editions of Petrarch and Dante. A refined Latin poet as well as the official historian of Venice, Bembo contributed to spreading Neoplatonic ideas on beauty and love, especially through his vastly successful dialogue known as Gli Asolani (1505).

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  1. Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy

    Marco Faini

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  1. Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Venezia, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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  1. Firenze, Italy

    Michael Wyatt

  2. University Ca' Foscari Venice, Venice, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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Faini, M. (2020). Bembo, Pietro. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_88-1

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