The prettiest love letters in the world
Subtitle: letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo, 1503 to 1519
By: translation and preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Contributors: Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.; Shankland, Hugh.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed. --
Publisher: David R. Godine
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Borgia, Lucrezia, -- 1480-1519 -- Correspondence.; Bembo, Pietro, -- 1470-1547 -- Correspondence.; Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence.; Papal States -- Nobility -- Correspondence.
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." -- T.p. verso.

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 Cardinal Bembo's letters were selected from various published and unpublished sources.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.