Bembo's

Castiglione's Book of the Courtier is indebted to Plato and Ficino, especially in Pietro Bembo's soliloquy on love at the conclusion of Book IV. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

It won multiple awards, and is similar to another one of my favorite stops, Bembo's Zoo.

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Pesaro snatched a leaf of paper off his desk and waved it in Bembo's face.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

Bembo's hand fell to the leather grip of his bludgeon.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

And hearing women and children use his own language as their birthspeech was music to Bembo's ears after a couple of years of listening to sonorous Forthwegian and occasional classical Kaunian.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

A few coins left too visible ended up in Bembo's belt pouch.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

To Bembo's vast relief, the sentry in front of Daukantis and Feliksai's door was a soldier he'd never seen before, not a fellow constable.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

"Curse you," she muttered in classical Kaunian before going back to Bembo's language.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

Bembo's penchant for Petrarch, whom he canonized as the model for lyric poetry, encouraged the predominance of literary as against philosophical motives in most subsequent Platonic love treatises.

PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968

Bembo's lead in making of the Platonic love treatise

PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968