1st Edition
Pietro Aretino: Subverting the System in Renaissance Italy
By Raymond B. Waddington
Copyright 2014
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino. Part One introduces the author during the 1520s in Rome with his remarkable first comedy, La Cortigiana. With Aretino’s move to Venice (1527), he found a congenial life-long home in which he could flourish. Yet the transition from courtier poet to poligrafo, vernacular writer for... Read more
Contents: Preface; Part I Rome: Introduction, Cortigiana (La cortigiana, 1525); A mask for Aretino (Una maschera per Aretino). Part II Venice: Meretrix est stampificata: gendering the printing press; Pietro Aretino: the new man of letters; Go East: Pietro Aretino’s flirtation with Constantinople. Part III The Satirist: Aretino’s prostitutes: the ragionamenti; A satirist’s impresa: the medals of Pietro Aretino. Part IV Religion: Pietro Aretino, religious writer; Aretino, Titian, and ’La Humanità di Christo’. Part V Influence: Before Arcimboldo: composite portraits in Italian medals; Volpone: Aretino’s Venice and Jonson’s Aretino; Index of names.
Biography
Raymond B. Waddington is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis, USA.
