“Bembo emerges as the strongest link between the rhetoricians and the composers." (Kirkendale)
✒ #PietroBembo, Italian Renaissance scholar, author, literary theorist, poet, and Catholic cardinal, #DOTD 18 January 1547. #Literature
📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 15 October 1816, while in Milan, #LordByron read the love poems shared between the poet #PietroBembo and #LucreziaBorgia, and declared them to be "the prettiest love letters in the world."
#Titian (1490-1576)
Portrait of #PietroBembo (1470-1547)
ca. 1540
National Portrait Gallery USA
#Bembo
"For I shall never rest content until I am certain she knows what she is able to enact in me and how great and strong is the fire that her great worth has kindled in my breast." [Letter to Lucrezia Borgia]
✒️ #PietroBembo, Italian cardinal and poet, was #BOTD 20 May 1470 #Poetry
