Prose della Volgar Lingua

Name: Prose della Volgar Lingua
Author: Pietro Bembo

by Pietro Bembo

Treatise on Italian language usage establishing principles of vernacular grammar

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Pietro Bembo

Italian Renaissance humanist who established Petrarch as the model for Italian lyric poetry and formulated the principles of literary Italian. His own Rime show his Petrarchan elegance.

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