Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Published / Created:
Marlborough, Wiltshire, England : Libanus Press, 1985.
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsMSS 17 Moss no. 111Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View finding aid for the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0017
Classification:
Books
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 Cardinal Bembo's letters were selected from various published and unpublished sources.Includes 6 poems (1 in Spanish, 5 in Italian) with English translations.Bibliography: p. 45.Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 111Bain, I. Wood engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, 265-282BAC: 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.