Selected Letters [of] Aretino
Author | : Pietro Aretino |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Pietro Aretino |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pietro Aretino |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781434431127 |
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was an influential Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist. He is credited with inventing modern literate pornography.
Author | : Pietro Aretino |
Publisher | : [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Authors, Italian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Donne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1351549278 |
Whether sharing his anxieties about his writing, consoling bereaved friends, complaining about the meanness of a patron or defending himself against malicious gossip, John Donne reveals himself in his letters with a directness that can be found nowhere else in his writings. These letters corroborate the impression created by his better-known writings that he was one of the most remarkable figures produced by the English Renaissance and that he possessed an extraordinarily subtle and creative intelligence.
Author | : Pietro Aretino |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Italian literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marco Faini |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2021-08-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004465197 |
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.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271044255 |
After classical antiquity, the Italian Renaissance raised the portrait, whether literary or pictorial, to the status of an important art form. Among sixteenth-century Renaissance painters, Titian made his reputation, and much of his living, by portraiture. Titian's portraits were promoted by his friend, Pietro Aretino, an eminent poet and critic, who addressed his letters and sonnets to the same personages whom Titian portrayed. In many of these letters (which often included sonnets), Aretino described both an individual patron and Titian's portrait of that patron, thus stimulating the reciprocal relation between a verbal and pictorial portrait. By investigating this unprecedented historical phenomenon, Luba Freedman elucidates the meaning conveyed by the portrait as an artistic form in Renaissance Italy. Fusing iconographical analysis of the most famous Titian portraits with rhetorical analysis of Aretino's literary legacy as compared to contemporary reactions, Freedman demonstrates that it is due to Titian's many portraits and to Aretino's repeated simultaneous writings about them that the portrait ceased being primarily a social-historical document, preserving the sitter's likeness for posterity. It gradually became, as it is today, a work of art, the artist's invention, which gives its viewer an aesthetic pleasure.
Author | : Pietro Aretino |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Italian literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pietro Aretino |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Veronica Franco |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0226259854 |
Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. As an "honored courtesan", Franco made her living by arranging to have sexual relations, for a high fee, with the elite of Venice and the many travelers—merchants, ambassadors, even kings—who passed through the city. Courtesans needed to be beautiful, sophisticated in their dress and manners, and elegant, cultivated conversationalists. Exempt from many of the social and educational restrictions placed on women of the Venetian patrician class, Franco used her position to recast "virtue" as "intellectual integrity," offering wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life. Franco became a writer by allying herself with distinguished men at the center of her city's culture, particularly in the informal meetings of a literary salon at the home of Domenico Venier, the oldest member of a noble family and a former Venetian senator. Through Venier's protection and her own determination, Franco published work in which she defended her fellow courtesans, speaking out against their mistreatment by men and criticizing the subordination of women in general. Venier also provided literary counsel when she responded to insulting attacks written by the male Venetian poet Maffio Venier. Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries make her life and work pertinent today.