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

Shankland, Hugh [Editor]; Smith, Richard Shirley [Illustrator];

David R. Godine, Publisher, 1987

Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. 46, 43 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

"Prettiest Love Letters in the World records a brief but intense love affair, between an ambitious poet of high Venetian background and a young political bride whose father, as Pope, wielded absolute power. Their letters are charged with excitement; every meeting had an element of danger, the thrill of a gamble."