Talk:Pietro Bembo
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[edit] Date of death 18 January?
Various sources [1] have him dying on 18 January, not 11 January. Anyone know the truth, and why? -- JackofOz (talk) 23:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
- The most recent New Grove (the online edition, 2001) has 11 January. The venerable, wonderful, gloriously written and occasionally inaccurate 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica has 18 January (I remember checking and doublechecking this when I rewrote this article a week or so ago). I went with the recent date, but it could be put in a footnote; also Grove has been wrong on occasion. Thanks, Antandrus (talk) 23:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Potential sources
Maybe these sources are useful for verifying and referencing this article, but I have no idea how reliable they are.
- Carol Kidwell (2004). Pietro Bembo: Lover, Linguist, Cardinal. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0773527095. partially accessible via google books.
- Public domain 1897 book The Earlier Work of Titian, by Claude Phillips mention Bembo twice, here:
This was the moment, too, when—to take one instance only among many—the Ex-Queen of Cyprus, the noble Venetian Caterina Cornaro, held her little court at Asolo, where, in accordance with the spirit of the moment, the chief discourse was ever of love. In that reposeful kingdom, which could in miniature offer to Caterina's courtiers all the pomp and charm without the drawbacks of sovereignty, Pietro Bembo wrote for "Madonna Lucretia Estense Borgia Duchessa illustrissima di Ferrara," and caused to be printed by Aldus Manutius, the leaflets which, under the title Gli Asolani, ne' quali si ragiona d' amore,[8] soon became a famous book in Italy.
- and here:
To Crowe and Cavalcaselle's pages the reader must be referred for a detailed and interesting account of Titian's intrigues against the venerable Giovanni Bellini in connection with the Senseria, or office of broker, to the merchants of the Fondaco de' Tedeschi. We see there how, on the death of the martial pontiff, Julius the Second, Pietro Bembo proposed to Titian to take service with the new Medici Pope, Leo the Tenth (Giovanni de' Medici), and how Navagero dissuaded him from such a step.
