MiataDrivers - The Prettiest Love Letters in the World: Letters Between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo, 1503-1519
Hugh Shankland (editor)
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The Prettiest Love Letters Hugh Shankland (editor) epub The Prettiest Love Letters Hugh Shankland (editor) pdf download The Prettiest Love Letters Hugh Shankland (editor) pdf file The Prettiest Love Letters Hugh Shankland (editor) audiobook The Prettiest Love Letters Hugh Shankland (editor) book review The Prettiest Love Letters Hugh Shankland (editor) summary | #1274558 in Books | David R Godine | 2001-07-01 | Original language:Italian | PDF # 1 | .32 x7.10 x9.98l,.55 | File type: PDF | 66 pages | ||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Are they sincere?|By P. J. Sullivan|These letters are adulatory, emotionally effusive, poetic. But are they sincere? One wonders what Bembo's motives were. Was he fishing for court favors from the duchess? Or were these two really soul mates, as they claimed to be? On page 41, the editor says that "she made use of Bembo to expedite her interests." Were they using each other? In|Language Notes|Text: English, Italian (translation)| Original Language: Italian
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 resilience and cu...
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