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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
Word History and Origins
Origin of Bembo1
Example Sentences
In his book "The Light in Troy," literary scholar Thomas Greene points to a 1513 letter written by poet Pietro Bembo to Giovanfrancesco Pico della Mirandola.
"Imitation," Bembo writes, "since it is wholly concerned with a model, must be drawn from the model . . . the activity of imitating is nothing other than translating the likeness of some other's style into one's own writings."
He also loves to mention typefaces — Bembo, Baskerville, Garamond, Caslon and Janson come up a lot — and the names of beautiful papers: Amalfi, Fabriano, Nideggen.
Its author, Pietro Bembo, is best known today not for his book but for the typeface, designed by Francesco Griffo, in which the first semicolon was displayed: Bembo.
In her delightful history, Watson brings the Bembo semicolon alive, describing “its comma-half tensely coiled, tail thorn-sharp beneath the perfect orb thrown high above it.”
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