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    Pietro Aretino (US: /ˌɑːrɪˈtiːnoʊ, ˌær-/, Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro areˈtiːno]; 19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet...
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    The Portrait of Pietro Aretino is an oil on canvas portrait of the Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino by Titian, painted around 1545, possibly for Cosimo...
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    Pietro Aretino Les Sonnets Luxurieux (1892) de Pietro Aretino Les Sonnets Luxurieux (1892) de Pietro Aretino Les Sonnets Luxurieux (1892) de Pietro Aretino...
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  • Aretino is a surname or demonym (meaning 'from Arezzo'), and may refer to: Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), Italian writer and controversialist; a reference...
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    close over the almost thirty years Aretino spent in Venice." Xavier Salomon, Titian's Pietro Aretino (2020), p. 38. Aretino became "the closest companion of...
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    indigestion and uncontrollable laughter.[better source needed] In 1556, Pietro Aretino "is said to have died of suffocation from laughing too much". In 1660...
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    prompted a satire on the part of Pietro Aretino, whose patron, Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, was also a contender. Aretino mocked Cardinal Accolti's not always...
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    I Modi (redirect from Aretino's Postures)
    did not become aware of the engravings by Marcantonio until the poet Pietro Aretino came to see his paintings. These are the paintings that Marcantonio...
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  • illuminator and architect Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer Pietro Auletta (1698–1771), Italian...
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    Retrieved 13 October 2017. Giorgio Vasari; Francesco Priscianese; Pietro Aretino; Sperone Speroni; Lodovico Dolce (23 April 2019). Lives of Titian. Getty...
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    a triumphant success, despite some detractors. Tintoretto's friend Pietro Aretino praised the work, calling particular attention to the figure of the...
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    his mind. In a letter to Baldassare Castiglione, Raphael dictated via Pietro Aretino, that "to paint a beauty, I should have to see a number of beauties...
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    dressed in red, playing the violone; besides them stands the poet Pietro Aretino considering a glass of the new red wine. A more recent study links the...
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  • Spanish theologian, founder of the Jesuits (born 1491) October 21 – Pietro Aretino, Italian satirist (born 1492) October 31 – Johannes Sleidanus, Luxembourgeois...
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    leading courtesan in Venice and occasional dining companion of Titian and Aretino, the latter a friend of the cardinal. Titian painted Ippolito's portrait...
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    operation Abramo asked for 10 men to hold down the stricken condottiero. Pietro Aretino, an eyewitness to the event, recalled in a letter to Francesco Albizi:...
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  • were called buggres (from the ethnonym Bulgars). The Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino advocated anal sex in his Sonetti Lussuriosi ('Lust Sonnets'). During...
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    Ragionamenti written almost a decade after by the Italian humanist Pietro Aretino. There was a Spanish-Italian film version from 1975. Alatorre, Antonio...
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  • eventually reaching the role of (unofficial) mistress to a king or prince. Pietro Aretino, an Italian Renaissance writer, wrote a series of dialogues (Capricciosi...
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    dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (Holy Roman Empire). Pietro Aretino 21 October 1556 The influential Italian author and libertine is said...
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    I Modi drawings are highly pornographic and accompanied sonnets by Pietro Aretino. The original prints were published by the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi...
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    holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin. The figure's torso strongly echoes the Belvedere Torso. The model is thought to be Pietro Aretino....
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    sexual intercourse, by Giulio Romano, with obscene sonnets by Pietro Aretino. Aretino also wrote the celebrated whore dialogue Ragionamenti, in which...
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  • go for it up until the end of the world") Pietro Aretino – Sonetti Lussuriosi ("Sonnets of lust" or "Aretino's Postures", to accompany an edition of Raimondi's...
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    has restored. Hanno was also the subject of a satirical pamphlet by Pietro Aretino titled "The Last Will and Testament of the Elephant Hanno." The fictitious...
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    the first wave of criticism were Pietro Aretino and his friend Lodovico Dolce, a prolific Venetian humanist. Aretino had made considerable efforts to...
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  • Luc'Antonio Cuppano Fabio Giubbani - Matteo Cusastro Sasa Vulicevic - Pietro Aretino Desislava Tenekedjieva - Maria Salviati de Medici Sandra Ceccarelli...
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  • (1490–1532) (Spanish) Joan Boscà i Almogàver (c.1490?–1542) (Catalan) Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) (Italian/Tuscan) Joan Lluís Vives i March (1492–1540) (Valencian)...
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  • Niccolò Machiavelli, Lena by Ludovico Ariosto, The Stablemaster by Pietro Aretino, The Faithful Shepherd by Giovanni Guarini and The Deceived by "Gl'Intronati"...
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  • Century libertine Hồ Xuân Hương, 18th-19th century Vietnamese poet Pietro Aretino, Italian poet. Books: "The School of Whoredom", "The Secret Life of...
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