At the death of Pope Leo X in 1521, Bembo retired, with impaired health, to Padua and continued to write. 1513–1521), and also was made a member of the Knights Hospitaller, in 1514. He accompanied Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici (1478–1534) to Rome, where Bembo later was appointed Latin secretary to Pope Leo X (r. In the 1506–1512 period, Bembo resided in Urbino, where he wrote Prose della volgar lingua ( Prose of the Vernacular Tongue, 1525), a treatise about composing and writing poetry in vernacular language of the Tuscan dialect. In the event, Bembo left the city of Ferrara when Ercole employed Josquin des Prez (1450–1521) as composer to the chapel fortuitously, Bembo left town just as the Black Death plague killed most of the population of Ferrara in 1505, including the renowned composer Jacob Obrecht (1457–1505). In the 1502–1503 period, Bembo again was in Ferrara, where he had a love affair with Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519), wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476–1534), son of the previous duke.

The poems were later set to music, which Bembo preferred be sung by a woman to the accompaniment of a lute, an artistic wish granted in 1505 when he met Isabella d'Este (1474–1539) in her response to having received a gift copy of Gli asolani. For writers and composers, the city of Ferrara was an artistic centre where Bembo met the poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) later, in the 1497–1504 period, Bembo wrote his first work, Gli Asolani ( The People of Asolo, 1505), a poetic dialogue about courtly love, which stylistically resembled the writing styles of the humanists Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) and Petrarch (1304–1374). His later travels included two years (1497–1499) at the Este court at Ferrara, during the reign of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (r. Under the tutelage of the neo-Platonist scholar Constantine Lascaris (1434–1501), Pietro Bembo studied Greek language for two years at Messina, and then studied at the University of Padua. During his father's ambassadorships to Florence (1474–14–1480) Pietro acquired a love for the Tuscan dialect, from which the Italian language developed. Bernardo Bembo was an ambassador for the Republic of Venice (697–1797), and was accompanied by his son, Pietro. His father Bernardo Bembo (1433–1519) was a diplomat and statesman and a cultured man who cared for the literature of Italy, and erected a monument to Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) in Ravenna. Pietro Bembo was born on to an aristocratic Venetian family. The obverse face of a bronze coin features the left profile of Bembo.

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