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.; Smith, Richard Shirley.
Publisher: David R. Godine
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 -- Correspondence.; Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547 -- Correspondence.; Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Correspondence.; Humanists -- Italy -- Papal States -- Correspondence.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources.
Genres: Correspondence.; Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 45).
"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.
"First U.S. edition published in 1987 by David R. Godine"--T.p. verso.