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Pietro Bembo reveals more than style alone.

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

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

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

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