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Bembo [ˈbɛmbəʊ] n (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a style of type [named after Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Italian scholar, poet, and cardinal, because the design of the typeface was based on one used for an edition of his tract De ætna by the printer Aldus Manutius] Bembo1 n (Biographies / Bembo, Pietro (1470-1547) M, Italian, MISC: scholar, WRITING: poet, RELIGION: clergyman) Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1470-1547, Italian scholar, poet, and cardinal (1539). His treatise Prose della volgar lingua (1525) helped to establish a standard form of literary Italian How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo. Paying tribute to the elegant classic typeface Bembo, a typographer/ artist composes a series of animals from "Antelope" to "Zebra," evoking each animal by delineating it with the letters of its name. Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (1478-1534) was there when the humanist and papal domestic secretary Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) read the sentence against Petrucci, and the cardinal's appearance in Raphael's painting bears the "grave and calm" expression of that occasion. |
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