BEMBO, Pietro
Epistolarum Leonis decimi
Lyon: Apud Haeredes Simonis Vincentij [Denis de Harsy at colophon], 1538 (dated at colophon)
8vo: 4.5 by 6" (155x100mm).
Printer's mark on the title page, woodcut initials
Limp vellum, manuscript title on spine, lacks ties
Very good interior except spot to the upper part of the title page and few minor faded stains.
Worn binding, with damage to the vellum at the back cover and at the edge of the spine.
432 pp
Provenance: Astery Manly (signed on title page).
Text in Latin

Pietro Bembo, O.S.I.H. (Latin: Petrus Bembus; 1470 – 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman 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.




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