Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519, The prettiest love letters in the world , 1987
- Title(s):
- The prettiest love letters in the world : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo, 1503 to 1519 / translation and preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
- Additional Title(s):
- Messer Pietro mio. English
- Published/Created:
- Boston : David R. Godine, 1987.
- Physical Description:
- 46, [66] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsMSS 17 Moss no. 114Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3237105
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- "First published in a limited edition in the U.K. in 1985 as Messer Pietro Mio by Libanus Press, Marlborough. This edition first published in the U.K. by Collins Harvill, London."--Title page verso.
"First United States trade edition ... . Printed and bound by Horowitz/Rae Book Manufacturers, Fairfield New Jersey, on Mohawk Ticonderoga Text. "--Moss.
The 9 extant letters from Lucrezia Borgia to Cardinal Bembo are preserved in the Biblioteca ambrosiana, Milan (Ms. H.246).
Includes 6 poems (1 in Spanish, 5 in Italian) with English translations.
Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 114
Bibliography: p. 45.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original red cloth with simple typeset dust jacket.
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.Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Correspondence.Papal States -- Nobility -- Correspondence.
- Form/Genre:
- Wood engravings -- 1987.
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