Messer Pietro mio
Subtitle: letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo
By: translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Contributors: Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.; Shankland, Hugh.; Smith, Richard Shirley.
Publisher: Libanus Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 -- Correspondence.; Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547 -- Correspondence.; Nobility -- Papal States -- Correspondence.; Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 45.
"Limited to one hundred and fifty copies, numbered 1-135, & A-O for the fifteen special copies with an extra set of signed prints"--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 Cardinal Bembo's letters were selected from various published and unpublished sources.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.