{"product_id":"la-peregrina-annemarie-jordan-gschwend-9781915401304","title":"La Peregrina: An Extraordinary Renaissance Pearl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetraces the Peregrina Pearl's many journeys and misinterpretations and revisits its famous and infamous owners\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo jewel has captured the imagination like the Peregrina Pearl, with its vivid history as a Spanish crown treasure and its dramatic disappearance from Madrid's Royal Palace. Its last owner, Elizabeth Taylor, called it \"the most perfect pearl in the world\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Peregrina was fished from the Gulf of Panama in 1577 by a young enslaved African and quickly became the most celebrated natural pearl of the Renaissance. Its extraordinary beauty, size and shape inspired the Milanese court jeweller Jacopo da Trezzo to christen it \u003ci\u003eLa Perla Peregrina -\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003ethe rare one\". King Philip II of Spain secured it in 1586. For more than two centuries, successive Spanish queens, infantas and kings wore the Peregrina as a symbol of global rule and imperial power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on decades of archival work in Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain and France, Annemarie Jordan Gschwend assembles royal inventories, diaries, accounts and correspondence to publish, for the first time, the pearl\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003es full documentary history, which began in the New World in the late sixteenth century through to its place in the collection of Elizabeth Taylor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annemarie Jordan Gschwend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915401305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915401304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Holberton Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Annemarie Jordan Gschwend","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447254364415,"sku":"9781915401304","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67859aea-5d11-4177-a9c3-e802b201559b.jpg?v=1777229879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/la-peregrina-annemarie-jordan-gschwend-9781915401304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}