From scribal publication to print publication: Pietro Bembo's 'Rime', 1529-1535.

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2000| | Copyright

The Venetian patrician Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) is recognized today as the crucial figure in the Petrarchan lyric poetry of sixteenth-century Italy: not the most gifted poet of the century, but the one who by his example set the standard for the rigorous imitation and emulation of his fourteenth-century model. As he approached his sixtieth year at the end of the 1520s, his poetic reputation was high: high enough, indeed, for verse to have been wrongly ascribed to his pen. (1) However, his influence in this field had been established only in part, since until then the only poems he ...

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