13 Facts About Bernardo Bembo

Bernardo Bembo was a Venetian humanist, diplomat and statesman.

Bernardo Bembo married his first wife, Elena di Matteo of the Morosini family, in 1462.

Between 1481 and 1483, Bernardo Bembo was the podesta and capitano del popolo of Ravenna.

Bernardo Bembo had returned to Venice by early 1485, when he was elected one of four ambassadors to pay homage to Pope Innocent VIII.

Bernardo Bembo served a first term as avogadore di comun in 1486, a role he reprised another five times .

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Bernardo Bembo served for two years, during which he revised the municipal statutes.

Bernardo Bembo conveyed to the council the offer of Tristano Savorgnan to poison Charles VIII of France, then invading Italy.

Bernardo Bembo describes the triumphal entry of Louis XII in Milan in a letter to Marino Sanuto the Younger.

Bernardo Bembo wrote an account of this embassy valuable for its description of Rome's antiquities.

Bernardo Bembo was never very wealthy, but he did own land in the Terraferma near Padua.

Bernardo Bembo often appears as an insolvent debtor of the state in these years.

Bernardo Bembo corresponded with Lorenzo de' Medici, Cristoforo Landino, Dante III Alighieri, Ermolao Barbaro, Pietro Barozzi, Baldassarre Castiglione, Marsilio Ficino, Francesco Filelfo, Lauro Quirini, Marcantonio Sabellico, Antonio Vinciguerra and Jacopo Zeno.

Bernardo Bembo has been seen, along with Girolamo Donato and Ermolao Barbaro, as representative of late 15th-century Venetian humanism.