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Pietro Bembo

Venetian humanist whose prose theory helped establish Tuscan as a literary standard.

In Prose della volgar lingua, Bembo favored Petrarch for poetry and Boccaccio for prose. His choices shaped elite Italian writing for centuries.

Key facts

Language: italian
Dates: 1470 to 1547
Nationality: Venetian
Era: Renaissance
Movement: Petrarchism
Court or circle: Urbino and papal Rome
Patronage: Medici papacy

Available in: EN

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