ARETINO, PIETRO

pyĕˈtrō ärātēˈnō, 1492–1556, Italian satirist. He led a life of adventure and wrote abusive works for hire. His derisive wit was so feared that the gifts of those who sought either to buy him or buy him off made him very wealthy. He was a friend of Titian, who painted his portrait. His comedies, such as La cortigiana and La talenta, are singular, if exaggerated, portraits of his time. His letters, in spite of their impudent coarseness, are full of verve. Ariosto called him the "scourge of princes."

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books on: Aretino Pietro  - 406 results

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Life, Letters, and Sermons
Book by Peter Martyr Vermigli, John Patrick Donnelly; Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999
Subjects: Reformation--Biography, Reformed Church--Doctrines--Early Works To 1800, Reformed Church--Sermons, Reformers--Correspondence, Vermigli, Pietro Martire--1499-1562, Vermigli, Pietro Martire--1499-1562--Correspondence
...Vergilio at that time held the office of secre- tary of the Florentine commonwealth, an office previously held by Pietro Aretino and Poggio Bracciolini; he also used to teach Latin letters to the young nobles from the pulpit with much praise...
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Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder: The Humanist as Orator
Book by John M. McManamon; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996
Subjects: Authors, Latin (Medieval And Modern)--Italy--Biography, Humanists--Italy--Biography, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Latin (Medieval And Modern)--Italy--History And Criticism, Vergerio, Pietro Paolo--1370-1444
...Culture of Petrarch and Bruni, Past and Present, no. 34 Guly 1966): 9-28; Eugenio Garin, Ritratto di Leonardo Bruni Aretino, Atti e memorie della Accademia Petrarca di lettere, arti e scienze, n.s., 40 (1970-72): 6-12; Neal W. Gilbert...
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Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Jo Eldridge Carney; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Europe--Biography--Dictionaries, Reformation--Biography--Dictionaries, Renaissance--Biography--Dictionaries
...Kaufmann, The School of Prague, 1988. Edmund M. Kern ARETINO, PIETRO (1492-1556) One of the more versatile and prolific writers in the Italian vernacular, Pietro Aretino made a significant impact on the literary, political...
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Print Culture and Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Book by Jane A. Bernstein; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Music Printing--Italy--Venice--History--16th Century, Music Publishing--Italy--Venice--History--16th Century, Venice (Italy)--Imprints
...1993. Aquilecchia, Giovanni. Pietro Aretino e altri poligrafi a Venezia...Seay. CMM 31. AIM, 1965 70. Aretino, Pietro. Del secondo libro de le lettere di M. Pietro Aretino. Paris, 1609. Aretino, Pietro...
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The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy: Poets, Artists, Saints, Anti-Semites
Book by Wiley Feinstein; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003
Subjects: Antisemitism--Italy, Fascism And Culture--Italy, Italy--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Italy--Politics And Government--1922-1945
...Florence: Le Monnier, 1979. Aretino, Pietro. La Passione di Giesu Composto per M. Pietro Aretino. Ristampato nuovamente nella...1545. Reprint, Venice, 1563. Aretino, Pietro. Risoluzione XVII: Daver in...
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journal articles on: Aretino Pietro  - 66 results

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Retorica Della Diffrazione: Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano E Tasso. Letteratura E Scena Cortigiana
Journal article by Laura Lepschy; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Retorica della diffrazione: Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso. Letteratura e scena cortigiana (Book)--Book reviews
...Retorica della diffrazione: Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso. Letteratura...is devoted to The lyric scene: Pietro Bembo, and consists of two chapters...section is entitled The comic scene: Pietro Aretino and is devoted to Aretinos play...
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Aretino and Michelangelo, Dolce and Titian: Femmina, Masculo, Grazia
Journal article by Fredrika H. Jacobs; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 82, 2000
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Competition, Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (1475-1564), Patronage, Titian (1490-1576), Visual artists
...And because Giorgio Vasari and Pietro Aretino were to promote Michelangelo by...more malicious detractors, and Pietro Aretino in relationship to one another...counterpoised-opposites. As Pietro Aretino and Lodovico Dolce observed...
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The Public Commemorative Monument: Mino Da Fiesole's Tombs in the Florentine Badia
Journal article by Shelley E. Zuraw; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998
Subjects: Art criticism, Bruni, Leonardo (Leonardo Aretino) (1370?-1444), Cemeteries, Church buildings, Giugni, Bernardo, Hugo, Count of Tuscany, Marsuppini, Carlo, Mino da Fiesole (1430-84), Visual artists
...at the time, most famously by Cardinal Pietro Barbo, later Pope Paul II.I6 His exposure...cathedral of Lucca and Antonio Roselli (Pietro Lombardo, 1467) in the church of SantAntonio...early as the 1450s, when it was owned by Pietro Barbo.56 The suggestion of ancient models...
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Annibal Caro's After-Dinner Speech (1536) and the Question of Titian as Vesalius's Illustrator
Journal article by Patricia Simons, Monique Kornell; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Anatomists--Works, Caro, Annibale--Speeches, lectures and essays, Painters (Artists)--Evaluation, Painters--Evaluation, Poets--Speeches, lectures and essays, Titian--Evaluation, Vesalius, Andreas--Works
...MS H. Printed Works Aretino, Pietro. Cortigiana. Opera...Mattio Franzesi, dell Aretino, e di diversi Autori...1820. Capparoni, Pietro. Giov. Battista. da...nor those of either Pietro Aretino or Annibal Caro. (15...
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Gendered Style in Italian Art Criticism from Michelangelo to Malvasia
Journal article by Philip Sohm; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995
Subjects: Art criticism--Demographic aspects, Art, Renaissance--Literature, Feminist art criticism--Evaluation, Philosophy, Renaissance--Demographic aspects
...transforms it into a statue.(115) Pietro Aretino in the Ragionamento della Nanna...manipulates the pigment. But Aretino was no Aristotle. Nanna, a retired...cosa creata. Venice, 1557. Aretino, Pietro. Sci giornate. Ragionamento...
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magazine articles on: Aretino Pietro  - 6 results

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Titian at the National Gallery
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 282, May 2003
Subjects: National Gallery (United Kingdom)--Exhibitions, Painting, Italian--Exhibitions, Painting, Renaissance--Exhibitions, Titian--Exhibitions
...streaked with white, reminds one of the famous letter from Pietro Aretino in which he congratulates Titian on the vista from his...cynicism, perhaps fostered by his friend, the humorist Aretino, with which Titian treated the story of Danae was prompted...
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The Anxiety of Influence: Benjamin Paul on "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice"
Magazine article by Benjamin Paul; Artforum International, Vol. 47, January 2009
Subjects: Painters (Artists)--Criticism and interpretation, Painters (Artists)--Works, Painters--Criticism and interpretation, Painters--Works, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Exhibitions, Tintoretto--Criticism and interpretation, Tintoretto--Works, Titian--Criticism and interpretation, Titian--Works, Veronese, Paolo--Criticism and interpretation, Veronese, Paolo--Works
...out of the workshop to eliminate a potential rival. Titian probably also encouraged the influential poet and critic Pietro Aretino to write a harmful review at an early stage in Tintorettos career and made sure that he was excluded from public commissions...
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Merchant of Venice: Alexander Nagel on "Jacopo Tintoretto (1519-1594)" at the Museo del Prado, Madrid
Magazine article by Alexander Nagel; Artforum International, Vol. 45, January 2007
Subjects: Art museums--Exhibitions, Painters (Artists)--Biography, Painters (Artists)--Exhibitions, Painters (Artists)--Works, Painters--Biography, Painters--Exhibitions, Painters--Works, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions, Tintoretto--Biography, Tintoretto--Exhibitions, Tintoretto--Works
...to take over serious market share. Days after the unveiling, Titians great ally the polemicist and pornographer Pietro Aretino--a critic whose influence with both the insiders and the larger public at this time was about equal to that of...
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Lorenzo Lotto in Washington
Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 16, February 1998
Subjects: Lotto, Lorenzo--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions, Smithsonian Institution. National Gallery of Art--Exhibitions
...artists of reputation not recruited to embellish the Doges Palace. Perhaps most damaging was an open letter written by Pietro Aretino in 1548 in which the powerful critic compared Lotto unfavorably with Titian and complimented him not on his achievements...
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To Buy or Not to Buy: During the 17th Century, Britain Witnessed the Birth of a Consumer Society. but, as the Number of Possessions Grew, So Did the Concept of 'Taste', a Subtle and Elusive Yardstick by Which People Advertised Their Social Position and Sensibilities. Keith Thomas Looks at How the Pursuit of Taste Encouraged, as It Still Does, Competition and Conformity
Magazine article by Keith Thomas; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2009
Subjects: Aesthetics--Influence, Consumer advocacy--History, Consumerism--History
...expressing not just their owners social position, but also their personal interests. The 16th-century Italian writer Pietro Aretino believed that one could tell someones character from his dwelling; and his claim was repeated by Roger North in 1698...
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WHAT THE DICKINSON? When Lord Halifax Wanted to Unburden Himself of His Splendid Titian, He Turned to Simon Dickinson, Discreet Dealer of St James's. So How Did This Clubbable Fellow Become the Premier Broker of Art between the British Upper Classes and Wealthy American Institutions? Godfrey Barker Meets the Man Who Makes Our Museums Nervous
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 12, 2007
Subjects: Brokers, Museums, Rich, Rich people
...important discovery. A portrait of the philosopher Pietro Aretino was unearthed in Majorca with the attribution School...the lining off. And there his name was, with poem by Aretino attached. As well as these, Dickinson has rehabilitated...
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A PAIR OF TITIANS ANYONE? YOURS FOR A MERE ?100M; Stunning: Diana and Callisto, Painted for Philip II of Spain
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 29, 2008
Subjects: Painters, Painters (Artists)
...beautiful Danae is visited by her lover Zeus in the form of a shower of gold falling on her naked thighs, Titians friend Pietro Aretino wrote: Her eyes burned and laughed beneath the arc of her brows; her cheeks actually looked like milk ... My God...
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What Fabulous Faces! 1.north and South: The Flemish Hans Memling's Man Holding a Coin, 1475 (Left) and Botticelli's Young Man of Less Than a Decade Later Illustrate How the Italians Introduced Mood and Temperament into Portraiture 2.van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait: The Catalogue Suggests We Imagine the Figures Undressed 3.family Affairs: Ghirlandaio's Old Man with His Grandson and Van Eyck's Wife, Margaret
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 17, 2008
Subjects: Catalogs, Portraits
...and important, his home a Venetian palace, his friends the intellectual elite ( including the witty and scabrous Pietro Aretino, best remembered for his pornography), was a collector of antiquities and precious things. In his portrait in...
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'Tis Time to Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow
Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), July 9, 2011
...penned - aWinter is natures way of saying a aapproximatelyUp yours.a It is far better than that of that do-gooder Pietro Aretino a aLet us love winter, for it is the spring of geniusa. I know what Robert Byrnes would have thought of that! Keep...
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Lustful Lyrics for Consenting Adults
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 7, 2007
Subjects: Poetry
...most purely beautiful voice but she uses it with a rare imagination. The poems, by the 16th-century Italian, Pietro Aretino, talked dirty; so dirtythat the translations were kept, quite literally, under the counter, availableonly to...


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encyclopedia articles on: Aretino Pietro  - 3 results

 
 
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Aretino, Pietro
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARETINO, PIETRO pye tro arate no, 1492 1556, Italian satirist. He led a life of adventure and wrote abusive works for hire. His derisive wit...
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Tintoretto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Michelangelo with the color of Titian. One of his early pictures, Apollo and Marsyas, was painted for the writer Pietro Aretino. Aretino praised it highly, commenting on the rapidity of execution. This mode of impulsive expression was current in...
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Titian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...After 1552, Titian remained in Venice, living in princely splendor and surrounded by friends who included the writer Pietro Aretino and the architect Jacopo Sansovino . Stylistic Periods Titians work may be divided into three phases. The first is...


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