biography
pronunciation:
[bemboh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1470–1547)
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| biography:
| Poet and scholar, born in Venice, NE Italy. In 1513 he was made secretary to Pope Leo X, and in 1539 a cardinal by Paul III, who appointed him to the dioceses of Gubbio and Bergamo. Bembo was the restorer of good style in both Latin and Italian literature, especially with his treatise on Italian prose (Prose della volgar lingua, 1525), which marked an era in Italian grammar. |
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