Pietro Bembo, O.S.I.H. (20 Mei 1470–11 Januari 1547)[1] or 18 January,[2] adalah seorang cendekiawan, penyair, pakar teori sastra, anggota Knights Hospitaller dan kardinal asal Italia. Ia merupakan figur berpengaruh dalam pengembangan bahasa Italia, membuat bahasa Toskana menjadi media sastra, mewajibkan bahasa tersebut untuk pemakaian modern standar. Tulisan-tulisannya membantu kebangkitan peminatan abad ke-16 dalam karya-karya Petrarkh.
Daftar pustaka
Raffini, Christine, "Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism", 1998. ISBN0-8204-3023-4
Pietro Bembo, "Oratio pro litteris graecis", 2003. Edited with English translation by Nigel G. Wilson.
Referensi
Atlas, Allan W., ed. Renaissance music: music in western Europe, 1400-1600. NY: Norton, 1998. ISBN0-393-97169-4
James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: "Madrigal", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed December 30, 2007), (subscription access)Diarsipkan 2008-05-16 di Wayback Machine.
The character Pietro Cardinal Bembo also features prominently in Baldassare Castiglione's work The Book of the Courtier where he speaks about the nature of "Platonic" love.
