Pietro Bembo
Venice, 1470 - 1547, Rome
Note: Venetian scholar, poet, literary theorist, and cardinal. He was an influential figure in the development of Tuscan Italian as a literary medium; also, his writings helped to bring about the revival of interest in the works of Petrarch, and the formation of the most important secular musical form of the 16th century, the madrigal.
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Arezzo, 1304 - 1374, Arquà Petrarca
near Treviso, about 1459 - 1517, Conegliano or Venice
Venice, about 1460 - about 1526, Venice
Naples, 1325 - 1382, Muro Lucano
Hamburg, Germany, 1809 - 1847, Leipzig, Germany
Gloucester or Hampshire, 1549, Westminster
