Download or read book A Companion to Pietro Aretino written by Marco Faini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary exploration of one of the most prolific and controversial figures of early modern Europe. This volume is comprised of seven sections, each devoted to a specific aspect Aretino’s life and works.
Download or read book The Letters of Pietro Aretino written by Pietro Aretino and published by [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pietro Aretino written by Edward Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ragionamenti written by Pietro Aretino and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cortigiana written by Pietro Aretino and published by Editorial Edinumen. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pietro Aretino Subverting the System in Renaissance Italy written by Raymond B. Waddington and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the popular press, was slow and difficult before he adopted a new career model derived from Erasmus; even then, he contemplated abandoning Italy for the Ottoman Empire. Part Two examines his work as a satirist in the mid-thirties with the Ragionamenti, the dialogues that branded him a pornographer when the satiric targets lost their immediacy. He augmented the satiric writings by creating the visual persona of a satirist in various media - woodcut author portraits in books, engravings, and particularly portrait medals. The complementary, verbal-visual relationship is the subject of this pairing. Aretino’s religious writings have not been taken seriously until quite recently. The two essays presented here trace Aretino’s associations with Erasmians, spirituali, heretics, and apostates, arguing that his own convictions were sincere, suggesting that he became a Nicodemite during the gathering Counter-Reformation repression of the 1540s. The concluding essays consider two examples of Aretino’s continuing influence in different media, visual arts and literature: on the brilliant, eccentric artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and on a great English comedy, Ben Jonson’s Volpone.
Download or read book Aretino s Satyr written by Raymond B. Waddington and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pietro Aretino's literary influence was felt throughout most of Europe during the sixteenth-century, yet English-language criticism of this writer's work and persona has hitherto been sparse. Raymond B. Waddington's study redresses this oversight, drawing together literary and visual arts criticism in its examination of Aretino's carefully cultivated scandalous persona - a persona created through his writings, his behaviour and through a wide variety of visual arts and crafts. In the Renaissance, it was believed that satire originated from satyrs. The satirist Aretino promoted himself as a satyr, the natural being whose sexuality guarantees its truthfulness. Waddington shows how Aretino's own construction of his public identity came to eclipse the value of his writings, causing him to be denigrated as a pornographer and blackmailer. Arguing that Aretino's deployment of an artistic network for self-promotional ends was so successful that for a period his face was possibly the most famous in Western Europe, Waddington also defends Aretino, describing his involvement in the larger sphere of the production and promotion of the visual arts of the period. Aretino's Satyr is richly illustrated with examples of the visual media used by the writer to create his persona. These include portraits by major artists, and arti minori: engravings, portrait medals and woodcuts.
Download or read book The Ragionamenti Or Dialogues of the Divine Pietro Aretino written by Pietro Aretino and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Titian s Pietro Aretino written by Francine Prose and published by Frick Diptych. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essay by Xavier F. Salomon, Frick Curator, paired with a contribution by author Francine Prose bring to life one of Titian's most personal and revealing portraits. Author of lives of saints, scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters, Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) attained considerable wealth and influence, in part through literary flattery and blackmail. Little is known of his early years, but by 1527 he had settled permanently in Venice. Among Aretino's friends and patrons were some of the most prominent figures of his time, several of whom gave him gold chains such as the one he wears in this portrait. He was on intimate terms with Titian, who painted at least three portraits of him. Here the artist conveys his friend's intellectual power through the keen, forceful head and his worldliness through the solid, weighty mass of the richly robed figure.
Download or read book The Ragionamenti Or Dialogues of the Divine Pietro Aretino written by Pietro Aretino and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sixteen Pleasures written by Robert Hellenga and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, poetry, and desire collide in a sensual, "elegantly moving" (The New Yorker) literary romance set in the cobbled streets and painted halls of Florence, Italy. Margot Harrington, an American volunteer in Florence, is an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she comes across a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano, accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When first published over four centuries ago, the Vatican ordered all copies destroyed. This one—now unique—volume has survived. The abbess prevails upon Margot to save the order’s finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica discreetly—meaning without the bishop’s knowledge. Margot’s other clandestine project is a middle-aged Italian who is boldly attempting radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission and soon her bed in this daring story of spiritual longing and earthly desire.
Download or read book Pietro Aretino Faksimiles etc Reproductions of portraits of Pietro Aretino written by Adolf Gerber (of Munich.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Marescalco written by Pietro Aretino and published by Published for the Carleton University Centre for Renaissance Studies and Research by Doverhouse Editions. This book was released on 1986 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Porn Star written by Mark Lamonica and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porn Star is an engrossing portrait of a man that is credited with being the originator of modern pornography: Pietro Aretino (1492-1556). Aretino was the most famous writer of the sixteenth century, and considered like his contemporary, Niccolo Machaivelli (1469-1527), a literary god in London. In fact, both writers came to symbolize in the minds of Elizabethans: everything devilish about the Italian people; "devils' incarnates" as they were called in Shakespeare's day. Vastly underrated today as a writer, Aretino's time has come--and he is a force to be reckoned with. Playboy, playwright, pornographer, poet, diplomat, shrewd man of affairs. Aretino typified the Renaissance man of action, embodying the mischievous genius of the Italian people. An immensely gifted polymath writer with an encyclopedic range of knowledge, experience and interests. Aretino's deadly "poison pen" aroused violent antagonism, as well as an idolatrous awe amongst his peers in his lifetime. He takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the Italian Renaissance where we meet many of his illustrious friends, the most colorful people of the period--crazy kings, deviant popes, eccentric artists, beautiful whores, deadly dukes and con men. Aretino's outrageous life culminates in an explosive climax that leads to the destruction of the holiest city in the world, Rome, or as the great religious reformer Martin Luther called it--Babylon. Along the way, Aretino challenges William Shakespeare's title as the world's greatest writer.
Download or read book Renaissance Porn Star written by Mark Lamonica and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADVANCE PRAISE FOR RENAISSANCE PORN STAR THE SAGA OF PIETRO ARETINO: THE WORLD'S GREATEST HUSTLER Sex, drugs, and the Medicis. A story of murder, revenge, art, pornography, and celebration with an all-star cast of characters: Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, a klatch of mafi a-don-style popes, and Shakespeare. A tale that turns deep, deep erudition into exquisite sweets for the heart and mind. -Howard Bloom, author of The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism If Jan Wenner had given Hunter S. Thompson an assignment to write a historical essay of Renaissance sexuality and literature, the resulting pages might have looked something like Renaissance Porn Star raw, uncensored, clearly mad, and quite brilliant. -Jess Winfi eld, author of My name is Will Like a buried treasure unearthed, Renaissance Porn Star sheds new light on how the Italian icon of the Renaissance, Pietro Aretino, helped shape an awakened world. Mark Lamonica mixes his amazing attention to historical detail and breathes new life into Shakespeare. -Thelma Reyna, Ph.D. author of The Heavens Weep for Us What art restoration has done for paintings, Mark Lamonica has done through a historical account of Pietro Aretino that wipes clean the whitewash of our puritanical perspective on the Renaissance over the past several hundred years. Not unlike a newly restored masterpiece, Renaissance Porn Star is both beautiful and shocking. -Adam Hall, Shakespeare scholar Mark Lamonica is an accomplished photographer and author of three highly acclaimed books: Junkyard Dogs and William Shakespeare (1997); co-author of Rio LA: Tales from the Los Angeles River (2001); named "a best book of the year" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Whacking Buddha: The Mysterious World of Shakespeare and Zen Buddhism (2005); hailed as a work of "spiritual literary dynamite." He is at work on a new book about the Devil.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies A J written by Gaetana Marrone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 2258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book The Works of Aretino Biography de Sanctis The letters The sonnets Appendix written by Pietro Aretino and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
