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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 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. In the field of music, Bembo's literary writing techniques helped composers develop the techniques of musical composition that made the madrigal the most important secular music of 16th-century Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pietro Bembo is the 723rd most popular writer (up from 800th in 2019), the 894th most popular biography from Italy (up from 950th in 2019) and the 64th 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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Among writers, Pietro Bembo ranks 723 out of 7,302. Before him are Alejo Carpentier, Pierre Loti, Kassia, Marie de France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and Witold Gombrowicz. After him are Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Tirso de Molina, Ed McBain, Columella, Theodore the Studite, and Lucan.

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Among people born in 1470, Pietro Bembo ranks 9. Before him are Charles VIII of France, Piri Reis, Martin Waldseemüller, Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Catherine of Navarre, and Hongzhi Emperor. After him are Francis, Count of Vendôme, Juan Díaz de Solís, György Dózsa, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Lucrezia de' Medici, and Quli Qutb Shah. Among people deceased in 1547, Pietro Bembo ranks 8. Before him are Hernán Cortés, Francis I of France, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Vittoria Colonna, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Sebastiano del Piombo. After him are Saint Cajetan, Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme, Johannes Schöner, and Perino del Vaga.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Bembo ranks 894 out of 5,161. Before him are Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444), Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1533), Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon (1249), Beatrice d'Este (1475), Cosimo Rosselli (1439), and Beatrice Cenci (1577). After him are Guercino (1591), Ladislaus of Naples (1377), Quirinius (-45), Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Silas (1), and Gentile da Fabriano (1370).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Pietro Bembo ranks 64. Before him are Pietro Metastasio (1698), Vittoria Colonna (1490), Antonio Tabucchi (1943), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Cassiodorus (487), and Epicharmus of Kos (-524). After him are Emilio Salgari (1862), Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Theognis of Megara (-570), Maurus Servius Honoratus (363), Arrigo Boito (1842), and Valerius Maximus (-100).

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