Pietro Bembo: A Renaissance Courtier Who Had His Cake and Ate It Too

Pietro Bembo

Pietro Bembo: A Renaissance Courtier Who Had His Cake and Ate It Too Quattrocchi, Ed JOURNAL OF THE CAXTON CLUB OF CHICAGO Abstract Gli Asolani, one of the most popular dialogues about Platonic love written in the 16th century. Bembo prefaces the work with a heartfelt dedication to Lucrezia Borgia, the infamously maligned daughter of […]

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