Bembo

/ (Italian ˈbɛmbo) /

noun

Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1470–1547, Italian scholar, poet, and cardinal (1539). His treatise Prose della volgar lingua (1525) helped to establish a standard form of literary Italian

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Bembo ²

/ (ˈbɛmbəʊ) /

noun

a style of type

Word Origin for Bembo

C20: named after Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), Italian scholar, poet, and cardinal, because the design of the typeface was based on one used for an edition of his tract De ætna by the printer Aldus Manutius

Example sentences from the Web for bembo

But she triumphed over the temptation, and in Bembo's words proved herself vincitrice di se stessa.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds
This last remark of Bembo reveals to us something of Ochino's way of life at that time.

Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870 |Various
Having completed his academical studies in 1498, Bembo joined his father at the brilliant Court of the Estensi.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) |John Addington Symonds
The famous Cardinal Bembo and other literati made the island their retreat, and beautified it with gardens and fountains.

Venetian Life |William Dean Howells

It bears resemblance in some of its details to palaces of the Bembo family in Venice.

The Shores of the Adriatic |F. Hamilton Jackson

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Bembo

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