Pietro Bembo (1470-1547).

Bembo was a Venetian scholar, poet, literary theorist, and cardinal. He was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language, specifically Tuscan, as a literary medium, and his writings assisted in the 16th-century revival of interest in the works of Petrarch. He is a major figure in Castiglione's The Courtier - he expresses the Platonic idea of love in its fourth, final book, which is rephrased by Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost (4.3).