Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519
Title:
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.
Alternate Title(s):
Messer Pietro mio. English
Published / Created:
Boston : David R. Godine, 1987.
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
Subject Terms:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 -- Correspondence. | Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547. Correspondence. | Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Correspondence. | Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence. | Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources. | Papal States -- Nobility -- Correspondence.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1987. | Correspondence.
Contributors:
Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547. | Shankland, Hugh. | Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver. | Moss, Roger W., 1940- former owner.