He had already become famous for zeal and eloquence, and was the intimate friend of the Spaniard Juan de Valdés, of Pietro Bembo, Vittoria Colonna, Pietro Martire, Carnesecchi, and others destined to incur the suspicion of heresy, either from the moderation of their characters or from the evangelical tincture of their theology.

In 1539, urged by Pietro Bembo, he visited Venice and delivered a remarkable course of sermons, showing a decided tendency to the doctrine of justification by faith, which appears still more evidently in his Dialogues published the same year.

During the 16th century Italian Renaissance, the Questione della lingua was the discussion on the status and ideal form of the Italian language, initiated by Dante's de vulgari eloquentia ( Pietro Bembo, Prose della volgar lingua Venice 1525 ).

* The purists, headed by Venetian Pietro Bembo ( who, in his Gli Asolani, claimed the language might be based only on the great literary classics, such as Petrarch and some part of Boccaccio ).

The latter's secretary Pietro Bembo described her as " one of the wisest and most fortunate of women ; while the poet Ariosto deemed her the " liberal and magnanimous Isabella ".

Neither partner was faithful: beginning in 1503, Lucrezia enjoyed a long relationship with her brother-in-law, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as well as a love affair with the poet Pietro Bembo.

In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri.

The distinguished Latinists Pietro Bembo and Jacopo Sadoleto were papal secretaries, as well as the famous poet Bernardo Accolti.

* January 18 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar ( b. 1470 )

* Pietro Bembo becomes historiographer of Venice.

* February – Pietro Bembo's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber is published in Venice by Aldus Manutius, the first book printed in the old style serif or humanist typeface cut by Francesco Griffo and known from the 20th century as Bembo.

* May 20 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal ( d. 1547 )

He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later Cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there.

The inscription in his marble sarcophagus, an elegiac distich written by Pietro Bembo, reads: " Ille hic est Raffael, timuit quo sospite vinci, rerum magna parens et moriente mori ," meaning: " Here lies that famous Raphael by whom Nature feared to be conquered while he lived, and when he was dying, feared herself to die.

The list of professors and alumni is long and illustrious, containing, among others, the names of Bembo, Sperone Speroni, the anatomist Vesalius, Copernicus, Fallopius, Fabrizio d ' Acquapendente, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey, Pietro Pomponazzi, Reginald, later Cardinal Pole, Scaliger, Tasso and Sobieski.

Pietro Bembo, Luigi Alamanni and Baldassare Castiglione were among her literary friends.

Pietro Bembo, O. S. I. H., ( 20 May 1470-either 11 January or 18 January, 1547 ) was an Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal.

* Raffini, Christine, " Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism ", 1998.

* James Haar, " Pietro Bembo.

* The character Pietro Cardinal Bembo also features prominently in Baldassare Castiglione's work The Book of the Courtier where he speaks about the nature of " Platonic " love.

* Pietro Bembo: Historia Veneta, Venice 1551 ; facsimile, CAMENA Project

* Bembo, Pietro: Carmina, in: Carmina Quinque Illustrium Poetarum Bergamo 1753 ; facsimile, CAMENA Project

* Borgia, Lucretia ; Pietro Bembo, Lettere di Lucrezia Borgia a messer Pietro Bembo, 1859 Biblioteca ambrosiana, digitised by Oxford University Apr 13, 2007 contains 9 letters to Bembo authored between 1503-17

Pietro was gazing at him in an insolent, disdainful fashion ; ;

In the early Renaissance his doctrine of the soul's mortality was adopted by Pietro Pomponazzi ( against the Thomists and the Averroists ), and by his successor Cesare Cremonini.

The Alexandrists, led by Pietro Pomponazzi, boldly assailed these beliefs and denied that either was rightly attributed to Aristotle.

In Rome he was aided by friends that included Pietro da Cortona and his fellow Bolognese, Domenichino.

He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.

He was suspected and denounced, but nothing ensued until the establishment of the Inquisition in Rome in June 1542, at the instigation of Cardinal Giovanni Pietro Carafa, the first Grand Inquisitor, and later Pope Paul IV.

The remainder of the squadron was scattered ; the ships of the line sheltered at San Pietro Island off Sardinia, while the frigates were blown to the west and failed to return.

It was one of two antiquities of Hamilton's collection drawn for him by Francesco Progenie, a pupil of Pietro Fabris, who also contributed a number of drawings of Mount Vesuvius sent by Hamilton to the Royal Society in London.

There were certainly castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in 1558, although not described as such: on 27 April of that year, Hernando Bustamante, a Spaniard from Palencia, was admitted ( the first castrati so termed who joined the Sistine choir were Pietro Paolo Folignato and Girolamo Rossini, admitted in 1599 ).

Under the aegis of the Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law was completed under Benedict XV, who promulgated the Code, effective in 1918.

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

Fra Angelico ( born Guido di Pietro ; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455 ) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having " a rare and perfect talent ".

Fra Angelico was born Guido di Pietro at Rupecanina

Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France.

Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and Pica had him baptised as Giovanni di Bernardone.

Bernini was also a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture along with his contemporaries, the architect, Francesco Borromini and the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona.

Bernini was born in Naples to a Mannerist sculptor, Pietro Bernini, originally from Florence, and Angelica Galante, a Neapolitan, the sixth of their thirteen children.

In 1606, at the age of eight he accompanied his father to Rome, where Pietro was involved in several high profile projects .< ref >