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	Pietro Bembo - Encyclopedia.com
		Bembo was for many years the arbiter of Italian letters, insisting that classical traditions be preserved.
		Leone Ebreo, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, and Pico della Mirandola...
		Parma: Fondazione Pietro Bembo / Ugo Guanda, 1995.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Bembo-Pi.html (968 words)

	Pietro Bembo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in Venice and while still a boy he accompanied his father to Florence, and there acquired a love for that Tuscan form of speech which he afterwards cultivated in preference to the dialect of his native city.
		The offer of a cardinal's hat by Pope Paul III took him in 1539 again to Rome, where he renounced the study of classical literature and devoted himself to theology and classical history, receiving before long the reward of his conversion in the shape of the bishoprics of Gubbio and Bergamo.
		Bembo, as a writer, is the beau ideal of a purist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pietro_Bembo (447 words)

	Cardinal Pietro Bembo
		The son of a Venetian statesman, Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) is recognized as one of the most celebrated diplomats, poets, and humanist scholars of the sixteenth century.
		Bembo was appointed librarian of St. Mark's Cathedral in 1530, and he became official historian for the city of Venice.
		Bembo's dark eyes are bright and alert; his short gray beard is softly modeled.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg23/gg23-41365.0.html (218 words)

	International Paintings and Sculpture \| Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo (obverse); Pegasus on the fountain Hippocrene ...
		Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo (obverse); Pegasus on the fountain Hippocrene (reverse)
		The subject of the medal, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, was born in Venice in 1470 and is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the world of Italian literature during the Renaissance.
		Sacred to the Muses, the spring was associated with poetry and literature, and was thus appropriate for the writer and humanist Bembo.
	www.nga.gov.au /International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=82783&BioArtistIRN=12735&MnuID=SRCH&GalID=2 (436 words)

	Nestled among the rooftops of Venice with a sweeping view of the Grand Canal and the famed Rialto Bridge
		It was built by the noble Bembo family towards the end of the fourteenth century along the quay destined for the unloading of coal, a resource which the family itself traded.
		The noble Bembo were among the ancient families of the Venetian aristocracy and sought refuge in the lagoon at the time of the barbarian invasions, fleeing from Bologna.
		The illustrious Pietro, elected cardinal in 1539, was from the branch of the family that owned the palace on the “Riva del Carbon” and appears to have been born in the same house.
	www.palazzobembo.com /Palazzo_Bembo-en.htm (304 words)

	Pietro Bembo
		Italian humanist, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
		A favorite of the Medici, he was secretary to Pope Leo X and was made a cardinal by Paul III.
		Bembo was for many years the arbiter of Italian letters, insisting that classical traditions be preserved.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/B/Bembo_Pietro.html (107 words)

	Pietro Bembo Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Bembo soon gained remarkable prestige in literary matters because of his vast classical culture and his ability to write fine Tuscan prose and poetry.
		In 1530 his native city appointed Bembo historian of the Republic of Venice and head of the famous library which was later called the Marciana.
		Bembo's history of Venice from 1487 to 1513 was published posthumously in 1553.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/pietro-bembo (420 words)

	NEXUS: Criminal History of the Papacy - Part 3/3
		Cardinal Porizzetti, for example, paid 40,000 ducats and altogether Leo's appointees on this occasion brought in another half a million ducats for the treasury.
		Some cardinals received an income from the Church of 40,000 ducats a year and lived in stately palaces manned by as many as 300 servants and adorned with every art and luxury known to the time.
		The next Conclave took 20 days and the cardinals were in such a hurry to receive another round of bribes that they strutted to the Sistine Chapel dressed in the garb of fashionable cavaliers, with plumed hats, gay vests, mantles, silver spurs and flowing robes.
	www.nexusmagazine.com /articles/Papacy3.html (6293 words)

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		He became a cardinal in 1456 and in 1458 was elected pope.
		Bembo had been one of the great literary dictators of Europe whose Neoplatonic allegories had been the height of fashion and whose love-letters to great ladies such as Lucrezia Borgia had excited no adverse comment.
		A number of Bembo's manuscripts were written by Bartolomeo San Vito, who is widely held to be the finest scribe of the Renaissance.
	world.std.com /obi/Vatican/exhibit/c-humanism/Humanism.txt (4914 words)

	Two Renaissance Book Collectors
		Bembo himself copied one of the earliest books known to his collection while he was at the University of Padua.
		Bembo used his collection to become learned in the shared metaphors of a courtly culture that esteemed classical literature, as well as to display this knowledge publicly to advance his career and social standing.
		Just as the location of Bembo's books illustrated their function in his life, the location of Capranica's collection in his study at his main residence showed that his collection was immediately accessible for practical and applied use in his daily duties as cardinal.
	www.si.umich.edu /SI_504/Papers/miclight2.html (2709 words)

	Typeface Web Site: Font 5 History
		Drawn under the guidance of Stanley Morison, Bembo was based on the roman types cut by Francesco Griffo, and used by Aldus Manutius in Venice in 1495 to print Cardinal Bembo's tract, "de Aetna".
		Bembo is considered one of the first old style typefaces, which also include the highly popular Garamond.
		Bembo has been widely used for books, in advertising and display work over the last 60 years.
	msp.sfsu.edu /instructors/rsellers/spring_1998/f5b.html (143 words)

	Bembo Fonts and Typefaces - Faces
		Monotype Bembo, issued in 1929, is based on the roman cut by Francesco Griffo for Cardinal Bemboâs tract âde Aetnaâ in 1495.
		Bembo is one of the most beautiful and distinctive typefaces and has been widely used for book text, advertising and display work over the last 60 years.
		Bembo Book is slightly narrower than existing digital versions of the face; this makes it more economical in use and gives excellent color to continuous pages of text.
	www.faces.co.uk /topfonts/bembo.cfm (302 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pietro Bembo
		It was at her urgent solicitation that Bembo, in 1520, on the death of Leo X, withdrew from public affairs and retired with his health impaired by severe sickness to Padua, where he lived in ease and elegance, devoting himself to literary pursuits and the society of his learned friends.
		Bembo was a thorough master of elegant diction.
		Bembo's works include a history of Venice, poems, dialogues, criticisms and letters.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02425e.htm (632 words)

	Bembo font
		Monotype Bembo, issued in 1929, is based on the roman cut by Francesco Griffo for Cardinal Bembo’s tract “de Aetna” in 1495.
		The Bembo italic fonts were adapted from a face of Giovanni Tagliente (1524).
		Bembo is one of the most beautiful and distinctive typefaces and has been widely used for book text, advertising and display work over the last 60 years.
	www.look-for.ru /fonts/font.asp?c=336 (127 words)

	* Cardinal - (Esoteric): Definition
		The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, although not expressly a Kabbalist, is a Jewish convert to the Church who continues to practice the Jewish Sabbath and other rituals which have strong Kabbalistic implications...
		The four cardinal points of the compass, corresponding to the four natural elements (Earth, Fire, Air and Water.) The correspondences vary from one tradition to another...
		The cardinal doctrine of these Shakta Tantras is that of Shakti whether in its Svarupa (that is, as It is in Itself) as Cidrupini, the Paraprakriti of Paramatma (Mahanirvana IV...
	en.mimi.hu /esoteric/cardinal.html (688 words)

	Families of Type
		The typeface, called Bembo after the manuscript’s author, was a Roman design of great typographic significance.
		A twentieth century revival of the Venetian types, Bembo is a copy of the Aldine Roman typeface cut by Francesco Griffo.
		Bembo is a classic typeface displaying the characteristics which identify Old Style designs:
	graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu /tutorials/process/type_basics/type_families.htm (1696 words)

	Anecdotage.Com - Thousands of true funny stories about famous people. Anecdotes from Gates to Yeats
		Cardinal Bembo once gave a splendid dinner in Rome.
		The cardinal, understandably shocked, gazed dumbfounded at his guest.
		Bembo, Pietro (1470-1547) Italian scholar, historian, poet and writer
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=632 (143 words)

	Portrait of Pietro Bembo by RAFFAELLO Sanzio
		Later it was recognised as the portrait of Pietro Bembo, the poet and humanist painted by Raphael when staying at the Court of Urbino.
		The portrait of Pietro Bembo, one of Raphael's earliest portraits, represents his art at the very beginning of the sixteenth century, the period of transition between his early work in the Umbrian style and that of his Florentine period.
		The hair, hanging in long locks as was the fashion at that time, frames a gentle face; both hands rest on the parapet and in his right hand is a folded sheet of paper.
	www.wga.hu /html/r/raphael/1early/08bembo.html (214 words)

	monotype.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Originally drawn by Monotype in 1929, Bembo was inspired by the types cut by Francesco Griffo and used by Aldus Manutius in 1495 to print Cardinal Bembo’s tract “de Aetna”.
		Not intended to be a facsimile of Manutius’ work, Bembo was drawn to embody the elegance and fine design features of the original but marry them with the consistency of contemporary production methods and to ensure that the typeface would work satisfactorily with high speed printing techniques.
		This new digital version of Bembo, called Bembo Book, has been designed to be more suited to text setting in the size range from 10 point to 18 point.
	www.monotypeuk.com /bemboAMT (438 words)

	monotype.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Originally drawn by Monotype in 1929, Bembo was inspired by the types cut by Francesco Griffo and used by Aldus Manutius in 1495 to print Cardinal Bembo’s tract “de Aetna”.
		Not intended to be a facsimile of Manutius’ work, Bembo was drawn to embody the elegance and fine design features of the original but marry them with the consistency of contemporary production methods and to ensure that the typeface would work satisfactorily with high speed printing techniques.
		This new digital version of Bembo, called Bembo Book, has been designed to be more suited to text setting in the size range from 10 point to 18 point.
	monotype.co.uk /bemboAMT (438 words)

	Humanism (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture)
		Another great book collector of the fifteenth century was Bernardo Bembo, Venetian diplomat and patrician, the father of the more famous Pietro Bembo.
		Pietro Bembo, writer, scholar, and collector, was among the most eminent and influential literary men of the sixteenth century.
		Cardinal Bessarion--scholar, diplomat, book collector, and Platonic philosopher--was among the most remarkable men of his century.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/vatican/humanism.html (5020 words)

	Cardinal Research
		This was another item in the cardinal's wardrobe which functioned as a belt: it gathered in the cassock's excess fabric and/or train.
		This one was the inspiration for Aaron's Cardinal costume.
		Painted when Bembo was 34, this depicts him as a young man. I just put this in here for fun.
	www.historicalalterations.com /Cardinal/cardinalresearch.htm (759 words)

	Augustus J.C. Hare, Florence, North-western Quarter
		Cardinal Bentivoglio, born at Ferrara, 1579, was secretary to Clement VII, and sent as Papal Nuncio to Flanders by Paul V. He wrote 'The History of the War in the Netherlands', and died 1644.
		A native of Bibbiena, in the Casentino, Bernardo Dovizi was tutor to the sons of Lorenzo de' Medici.
		This picture combines the composition of Michelangelo with a trace of Venetian colouring, but, besides the unpleasantness of the subject, it is unattractive to the spectator by the obvious sacrifice of all freshness of life for a style of art which, after all, Sebastian never entirely acquired.
	www.florin.ms /hareflorence4.html (13569 words)

	Bembo, Pietro -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Renaissance cardinal who wrote one of the earliest Italian grammars and assisted in establishing the Italian literary language.
		Of an aristocratic family, Bembo was educated principally by his father, a man of great authority in the Venetian republic.
		The classicist trend established by Pietro Bembo also affected narrative literature, for which the obvious model was Boccaccio's Decameron.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9015343 (625 words)

	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. II: Basilica - Chambers \| Christian Classics Ethereal ...
		As he held this office to the death of the 38pope (1521), the sixteen books of Latin letters of Leo X are practically, as to their form, of Bembo's composition.
		In 1530 he was commissioned by the Venetian senate to complete the history of the republic begun by Marcantonio Sabellico.
		This tendency, shown also in his manner of life—he was the father of several illegitimate children—was no obstacle to his being made a cardinal (1539).
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc02.html?term=Bembo,%20Pietro (368 words)

	Cardinal bird - cardinal - definition of cardinal by the Free Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cardinal Bird: Virginia Cardinal (Richmondena cardinalis) that is
		Cardinal: Virginia Cardinal (Richmondena cardinalis) that is native to much of the United States cannot be kept legally.
		The Cardinal bird was chosen to give U of L statewide identification, since the Cardinal is the state bird of Kentucky.
	www.networmclub.com /nmc/cardinal-bird.html (247 words)

	Their Mark on History
		The good cardinal is long since forgotten and so is his book, but Bembo type lives on, and when the puclishers of a contemporary book Michelangelo's restored work in the Sistine Chapel decided to print it in Bembo, they gravitated to the Letterpress and Foundry operated by Michael and Winifred Bixler.
		They knew that was one of the few places, if not the only, in the world where they could find the type originally used, which is to say, cast in a lead alloy, as opposed to computer replication.
		While it is possible to get Bembo on a computer, it apparently lacks the sharp definition and artistic feel that the same type has when cast in a lead alooy, Bixler explained
	www.mwbixler.com /article_syrheramer.html (1005 words)

	Bembo™ font family : MyFonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bembo™ is a Linotype font family with 33 styles priced from $21.00.
		The first developmental phase was defined by the influence of the classic Roman forms, indentifiable by the slight slant of the lower case s and the high crossbar of the lower case e, which in time took on less and less of a slant.
		Bembo is an old face type of unusual legibility.
	www.myfonts.com:8080 /fonts/linotype/bembo (381 words)

	Bembo™ font family : MyFonts
		Bembo™ is a Linotype font family with 31 styles priced from $24.00.
		The first developmental phase was defined by the influence of the classic Roman forms, indentifiable by the slight slant of the lower case s and the high crossbar of the lower case e, which in time took on less and less of a slant.
		Bembo is an old face type of unusual legibility.
	www.myfonts.com /FontFamily26.html (381 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giovanni Andrea Cortese
		In his answer to the cardinal's letter Cortese points out the great dangers which beset his soul when he was still engaged in worldly pursuits, and speaks of the interior happiness which he experienced while
		He was master of such a finished style that the classically trained Cardinal Bembo and others did not hesitate to class him among the most elegant Latin writers of this
		Latin translation of the New Testament from the Greek texts, a historical work on the destruction of Genoa, etc. All his extant works were collected and edited with a biography of the author by the Benedictine
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04400a.htm (889 words)

	Douglas Cardinal ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Giovanni Battista Mercati, Cartille [sic] del Cardinal di Fiorenza Leone XI (Courtyard of the Cardinal of Florence Leo XI), pl. 26 from the series Alcune vedute et prospettive di luoghi dishabitati di Roma (Some Views and Perspectives of the Uninhabited P
		Pietro da Cortona - Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Maria Borghese c.
		In David Nash's mind, the cardinal directions for mark-making apply to his favoured forms: vertical for the cube, horizontal for the sphere, and diagonal for the pyramid.
	wwar.com /masters/c/cardinal-douglas.html (1119 words)

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