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11 mag 2024 · The Prettiest Love Letters in the World Hugh Shankland (translator), Richard Shirley Smith David R. Godine Publisher, 1987 [First US Printing, hardback] [English] 3.) The Prettiest Love Letters in the World Pietro Bembo, Lucrezia Borgia, Hugh Shankland (translator), Richard Shirley Smith (Illustrator/-in) The Harvill Press, 1987 [hardback]
22 mag 2024 · 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 resilience and cunning ...
23 mag 2024 · The art gallery also houses a series of love letters between Lucrezia and her beloved which testify to all the difficulties of their love. It is thought that it was Bembo himself who brought Lucrezia's hair to Milan, keeping it in a piece of correspondence, or that someone did it after her death.
9 mag 2024 · Product: book ISBN-10: 0-00-272047-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-00-272047-2 Publisher: The Harvill Press Country: English language Year: September 21, 1987 Number of pages: 112 ...
6 giorni fa · Description. Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia, which was suppressed for political reasons in the ...
20 mag 2024 · He is probably most remembered for having an affair with Lucrezia Borgia while she was married to the Duke of Ferrara and he was living at the Este Court with them. His love letters to her were described by the English poet, Lord Byron, centuries later, as ‘the prettiest love letters in the world.’
6 mag 2024 · In her latest novel, "The Marriage Portrait," O’Farrell takes us into the world of Renaissance Italy, where she unravels the tale of a young woman, Lucrezia de’ Medici. " To The Best Of Our Knowledge " producer Shannon Henry Kleiber talked with O’Farrell about what we can learn about history and ourselves through the many layers of portraits.
