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.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 114
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss

Copyright Status:

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:

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.