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:
London : Collins Harvill, 1987.
Physical Description:
[112] p. in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 113
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Translation of: Messer Pietro mio.

First English trade edition.

Handset in 14-point Monotype Bembo.

Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 113

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original red cloth; dust jacket illustrated with Shirley Smith engravings.

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. | Authors, Italian -- 16th century -- Correspondence. | Papal States -- Nobility -- Correspondence. | Collins Harvill -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1987. | Correspondence. | Dust jackets (Binding)
Contributors:
Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547. | Shankland, Hugh. | Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver. | Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner.