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Pietro Aretino (US: / ˌ ɑːr ɪ ˈ t iː n oʊ, ˌ ær-/, Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro areˈtiːno]; 19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics.
Apr 16, 2024 · Pietro Aretino (born April 20, 1492, Arezzo, Republic of Florence [Italy]—died October 21, 1556, Venice) was an Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist celebrated throughout Europe in his time for his bold and insolent literary attacks on the powerful.
Mar 31, 2016 · Pietro Aretino (b. 1492–d. 1556) displaced the humanist Pietro Bembo, a generation his senior, as the leading man of letters in Italy during the second quarter of the century. His dominance signaled a revolution.
Jul 1, 2017 · Let me confess: I'm utterly fascinated by the enigmatic Renaissance rebel poet Pietro Aretino. His writings, which often led to him evading furious cardinals and creditors, and his correspondences with influential men who could have potentially blackmailed them earned him...
Born in 1492 during the Golden Age of Florentine humanism, Pietro Aretino, who died from a stroke in 1556, is most recognized for the more than three thousand letters he published.
Pietro Aretino was a Tuscan writer, critic, and satirical poet, as well as an international publicist, an art agent, and a collector. He liked to call himself the “scourge of princes.” After some traveling he established himself in Venice where he met Titian, with whom he started a deep friendship that lasted for 30 years.
Aug 18, 2019 · Pietro Aretino was not only a great man of letters, but he was a man held in high esteem by the politicians, writers and artists of the time. About his role in the political and cultural context of the time we spoke with Paolo Procaccioli.
Pietro Aretino. 1492–1556. Italian author. Humble Origins. Pietro Aretino was born the son of a cobbler in Arezzo, a small town in Tuscany that was subject to the city of Florence. His mother grew estranged from Aretino's father and moved in with a local nobleman, taking her children with her.
Dec 6, 2023 · Pietro Aretino was a Tuscan writer, critic, and satirical poet, as well as an international publicist, an art agent, and a collector. He liked to call himself the “scourge of princes.” After some traveling he established himself in Venice where he met Titian, with whom he started a deep friendship that lasted for 30 years.
Titian’s portrait of the rather notorious author Pietro Aretino was commissioned to be sent from Venice to Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici in Florence in 1545. Aretino may have been concerned about its reception there, given that it would be viewed alongside highly finished Florentine portraits.
