num_pages: 656
description: The first full-length biography of Renaissance Cardinal Pietro Bembo Carol Kidwell's lavishly illustrated book is the first full-length biography of Renaissance Cardinal Pietro Bembo. Her extensive use of translations from Bembo's 2,600 letters, including exchanges of love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, provides a picture of personal life in the brilliant, turbulent years of the Italian Renaissance. Bembo, a Venetian patrician and man of letters, had a close association with the printer Aldus. He enjoyed a rich life with illicit love affairs in the courts of Ferrara, Urbino, and finally Rome, where he was appointed Latin secretary to Leo X.
language: English
title: Pietro Bembo: Lover, Linguist, Cardinal
titlecomplete: Pietro Bembo: Lover, Linguist, Cardinal
characters: Michelangelo, Pope Paul III, Pietro Bembo, Vittoria Colonna, Paolo Giovio, Lucrezia Borgia
ratings_count: 8
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press