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Bembo
1/ ˈbɛmbəʊ /
noun
- a style of type
Bembo
2/ ˈbɛmbo /
noun
- BemboPietro14701547MItalianMISC: scholarWRITING: poetRELIGION: clergyman 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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One of the most eminent (Bembo) considers it to be nothing more than an unconnected string of proverbs.
She half heard Bembo's rapid high-pitched excitement over trifles.
Bembo, cardinal and man of letters, was born in Venice in 1470 and died in 1547.
The famous Cardinal Bembo and other literati made the island their retreat, and beautified it with gardens and fountains.
Then the Calle Bembo, and then various offices on the fondamenta, under chiefly red façades.
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