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Title(s)
Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
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Published/Created
Marlborough, Wiltshire, England : Libanus Press, 1985.
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Physical Description
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 111
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
" This edition is limited to one hundred and fifty copies, numbered 1-135, & A-O for the fifteen special copies with an extra set of prints ...Printed in 14-point Monotype Bembo on Barcham Green handmade Chester."--Colophon.
The 9 extant letters from Lucrezia Borgia to Cardinal Bembo are preserved in the Biblioteca ambrosiana, Milan (Ms. H.246); they were published in 1859 under title: Lettere di Lucrezia Borgia a messer Pietro Bembo. Six were in Italian, 3 in Spanish. Cardinal Bembo's letters were selected from various published and unpublished sources.
Includes 6 poems (1 in Spanish, 5 in Italian) with English translations.
Bibliography: p. 45.
Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 111
Bain, I. Wood engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, 265-282
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 54 of 135, signed by Richard Shirley Smith. Bound in original tan quarter morocco and gilt-stamped boards; in slip case. Two printed prospectuses for this work laid in.
BAC: From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith. -
Subject Terms
Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547 -- Correspondence. | Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519 -- Correspondence. | Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence. | Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268–1559 -- Sources. | Libanus Press -- Publisher. | Nobility -- Papal States -- Correspondence.
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