BEMBO, PIETRO, Cardinal, a noble Venetian, secretary to Leo X., and one of the best writers of that illustrious age. He was a good poet, both in Italian and Latin; but he is justly censured for the licentiousness and immodesty of some of his poems. Besides these, he published A History of Venice: Letters; and a book in praise of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino. He died in 1547, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His collected works and life were published at Venice in 1729, in 4 vols. folio.