Pietro Bembo : lover, linguist, cardinal
"Pietro Bembo was the epitome of the Renaissance man. He was a poet, a historian, and a linguist who established a national language for Italy. He was a courtier, Latin secretary to Leo X, a cardinal, and, at the time of his death, a likely successor to Paul III. Moreover, to guarantee a living he took vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience in the aristocratic order of St. John of Jerusalem - and then started a family. This first full-length biography of Bembo portrays the life of a Renaissance man in all of its grandeur and contradictions."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©2004
Biographies
xii, 537 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780773527096, 0773527095
54500712