Aretino's Dialogues.

• MitwirkendeR: Moravia, Alberto,; Rosenthal, Margaret,; Rosenthal, Raymond,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rosenthal, Margaret.; Rosenthal, Raymond.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was one of the most important figures in Italian Renaissance literature, and certainly the most controversial. Condemned by some as a pornographer, his infamy was due largely to his use of explicit sexuality and the vulgar tongue of ordinary speech in much of his work.Dial...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION: 'A whore's vices are really virtues': The Erotics of Satire in Pietro Aretino's Ragionamenti
• PART ONE
• PIETRO ARETINO TO HIS DARLING MONKEY
• 1. This begins the first day of conversation in which Nanna, beneath a fig tree in Rome, tells Antonia the life of the nuns, composed by the Divine Aretinofor his amusement and to set forth correctly the three conditions of women
• 2. The second day of Aretino's capricious conversations, in which Nanna tells Antonia about the life of the wives
• 3. The last day of Aretino's capricious conversations, in which Nanna tells Antonia about the life of the whores
• PART TWO
• TO THE GENTLE AND HONORED MESSER BERNARDO VALDURA, ROYAL EXAMPLE OF COURTESY, PlETRO ARETINO
• 1. The first day of Messer Pietro Aretino's conversation, in which Nanna teaches her daughter Pippa the art of being a whore
• 2. The second day of the dialogue of Messer Pietro Aretino, in which Nanna tells Pippa all the vicious betrayals that men wreak on women
• 3. The third and last day of Messer Pietro Aretino's dialogue, in which the midwife explains to the wetnurse, with Nanna and Pippa listening, how to be a procuress
• AFTERWORD
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CHRONOLOGY