Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1470–1547, Italian scholar, poet, and cardinal (1539). His treatise Prose della volgar lingua (1525) helped to establish a standard form of literary Italian
Bembo in British English2
(ˈbɛmbəʊ)
noun
a style of type
Word origin
C20: named after Pietro Bembo, because the design of the typeface was based on one used for an edition of his tractDe ætna by the printer Aldus Manutius