Prettiest Love Letters in the World: The Letters Between Lucrezia Borgia and Pietro Rembo, 1503-1519

by Pietro Bembo, Lucrezia Borgia, Richard Shirley Smith

Book Overview

If history remembers Lucrezia Borgia at all, it is as a woman of extravagant vices whose name has become synonymous with political intrigue and poison. Cardinal Bembo is remembered primarily as the namesake of a popular typeface. But as this book of letters reveals, there was real substance, and real faces, to both of them. Borgia, a child bride who was ruthlessly exploited for political advantage by her three husbands, proved to be a girl of surprising...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879237163
• ISBN13: 9780879237165
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 10.3"