Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector

With a remarkable blend of scholarly precision & aesthetic sensibility to the various streams that combine to create a living culture, Susan Nalezyty presents the biography of a writer as an art collector. The result is a portrait of Italian High Renaissance culture that not only informs but deepens one's sympathies & enthusiasms. As delightful to read as a visit to Cardinal Bembo's studio must have afforded.