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Bembo [ˈbɛmbəʊ]

(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]

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(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

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No references found			95 Hardcover Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 PQ4620 Colonna (1492-1547) was almost universally recognized in scholarly accounts of her time as an important literary figure, one of the primary vehicles by which the linguistic and Petrarchan ideals that Bembo solidified in the early decades of the 16th century filtered farther south. Vittoria Colonna and the spiritual poetics of the Italian Reformation by Reference & Research Book News Given this, it seems curious, even in a work that pre-emptively self-describes as 'selective, rather than comprehensive' (xiii), that so little space is given here to Bembo and the petrarchist and neoplatonizing culture for which he was spokesman. Douglas Biow. The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy by Cox, Virginia / Italica Ambrosio Bembo was a Venetian noble from the same illustrious family line as Pietro Bembo. The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo by Horodowich, Elizabeth / Renaissance Quarterly			belted kingfisher belted sandfish Beltein belter belting beltless beltlike Beltway beluga beluga caviar Belukha Belute belvedere Belvoir Castle Belyi Belzebuth BEM bema Bemad Bemangle Bemask Bemaster Bemaul Bemaze Bemba Bembo bemean bemedaled Bemeet Bemelmans Bemete Bemidji Bemingle bemire Bemisia Bemisia tabaci Bemist bemoan Bemoaner Bemock Bemoil Bemol Bemonster Bemourn Bemuddle Bemuffle bemuse bemused bemusedly bemusement ben			BEMAC Bemad Bemah Bemah Bemangle BEMAR bemas bemas bemas Bemask Bemask Bemaster bemata bemata bematis Bemaul Bemaze BEMB Bemba Bemba Bemba (disambiguation) Bemba (disambiguation) Bemba K. Jones Bemba language Bembas Bembas Bembel, Andrei Bembel, Andrei Onufrievich Bembex Bembicini Bembo Bembo, Pietro Bembridge Business Association Bembridge Harbour Users Group Bembridge Sailing Club BEMC BEMCC BEMCCF Bemco BEMD BEMDAS BEME Bemean bemedaled bemedalled Bemeet Bemegride Bemegride Bemelmans Bemelmans, Ludwig Bement Public Library District BEMER Bemete BEMEX BEMF BEMFAM

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