Talk:Pietro Bembo

Date of death 18 January?
Various sources have him dying on 18 January, not 11 January. Anyone know the truth, and why? -- JackofOz (talk) 23:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The most recent New Grove (the online edition, 2001) has 11 January. The venerable, wonderful, gloriously written and occasionally inaccurate 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica has 18 January (I remember checking and doublechecking this when I rewrote this article a week or so ago).  I went with the recent date, but it could be put in a footnote; also Grove has been wrong on occasion.  Thanks, Antandrus  (talk) 23:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Potential sources
Maybe these sources are useful for verifying and referencing this article, but I have no idea how reliable they are.


 * partially accessible via google books.

"This was the moment, too, when—to take one instance only among many—the Ex-Queen of Cyprus, the noble Venetian Caterina Cornaro, held her little court at Asolo, where, in accordance with the spirit of the moment, the chief discourse was ever of love. In that reposeful kingdom, which could in miniature offer to Caterina's courtiers all the pomp and charm without the drawbacks of sovereignty, Pietro Bembo wrote for "Madonna Lucretia Estense Borgia Duchessa illustrissima di Ferrara," and caused to be printed by Aldus Manutius, the leaflets which, under the title Gli Asolani, ne' quali si ragiona d' amore,[8] soon became a famous book in Italy."
 * Public domain 1897 book The Earlier Work of Titian, by Claude Phillips mention Bembo twice, here:

"To Crowe and Cavalcaselle's pages the reader must be referred for a detailed and interesting account of Titian's intrigues against the venerable Giovanni Bellini in connection with the Senseria, or office of broker, to the merchants of the Fondaco de' Tedeschi. We see there how, on the death of the martial pontiff, Julius the Second, Pietro Bembo proposed to Titian to take service with the new Medici Pope, Leo the Tenth (Giovanni de' Medici), and how Navagero dissuaded him from such a step."
 * and here:

-Wikianon (talk) 21:48, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Written style
I just got here and I'm not really sure where to point this out or what to do about it (I'm in no way an editor or wiki enthusiast), but it bears observation that this sentence is so densely eloquent that it's practically unreadable to a normal audience and probably needs rewording: "His refutation of the pervasive puritanical tendency to a profane dualistic gnosticism is elaborated in the redemptive third book of his prose text Gli Asolani reconciling fallen human nature in a Platonic cosmic transcendence, mediated by reconciling Trinitarian love, and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia." boiled_elephant (talk) 10:09, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

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Missing Literary Work
Apart from Gli Asolani perhaps Bembo is best known for his History of Venice which went through multiple printings. This seems unaccountably absent from this page. I just managed to obtain a first edition of one volume of it, and can add it unless someone raises an objection. Please do not do the usual Wikipedian thing of adding it for me, since I can add the title page as well. Nicodemus (talk) 16:34, 18 March 2019 (UTC)


 * It's mentioned twice -- unless you mean the multiple-printings aspect -- but by all means add more about it. Looks like most of that part of the article is lifted from the 1911 Britannica. Antandrus (talk) 16:54, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Apology made directly to Antandrus Talk page Nicodemus (talk) 16:23, 19 March 2019 (UTC)