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Chapter 3 focuses on Bembo’s complex motivations for leaving Venice for Messina in 1492, and particularly on four individuals who shaped his humanism both before and during his time in Sicily. It is surely no coincidence that Pietro departed for Sicily soon after assisting Angelo Poliziano, that revolutionary figure in philological method, in collating, during the great man’s visit to Venice in summer 1491, the celebrated ancient manuscript of Terence that belonged to the Bembo family. Constantine Lascaris’ reputation as a teacher was far reaching, but Giorgio Valla, Lascaris’ former pupil from his Milan days and later Pietro’s teacher in Venice, may well have helped Bembo toward Messina. The naturalistic interests in De Aetna were perhaps partly nurtured by Lascaris; they also bear the imprint of another major influence on the young Pietro in Venice: Ermolao Barbaro. He was appointed Venetian ambassador to Rome in 1490; scandal estranged him from the Republic in 1491.
Title: From Venice to Sicily
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Chapter 3 focuses on Bembo’s complex motivations for leaving Venice for Messina in 1492, and particularly on four individuals who shaped his humanism both before and during his time in Sicily.
It is surely no coincidence that Pietro departed for Sicily soon after assisting Angelo Poliziano, that revolutionary figure in philological method, in collating, during the great man’s visit to Venice in summer 1491, the celebrated ancient manuscript of Terence that belonged to the Bembo family.
Constantine Lascaris’ reputation as a teacher was far reaching, but Giorgio Valla, Lascaris’ former pupil from his Milan days and later Pietro’s teacher in Venice, may well have helped Bembo toward Messina.
The naturalistic interests in De Aetna were perhaps partly nurtured by Lascaris; they also bear the imprint of another major influence on the young Pietro in Venice: Ermolao Barbaro.
He was appointed Venetian ambassador to Rome in 1490; scandal estranged him from the Republic in 1491.
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