A companion to Pietro Aretino / / edited by Marco Faini, Paola Ugolini.

A Companion to Pietro Aretino offers exhaustive yet accessible essays aimed at understanding this complex and fascinating author. Its scope extends beyond the field of Italian studies, and includes references to other European literatures, visual arts, music, performance studies, gender studies, and...

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Superior document:Renaissance Society of America texts and studies series ; Volume 18
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Renaissance Society of America texts and studies series ; Volume 18.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Selfhood and the Public Sphere
  • Inventing the Celebrity Author / Raymond B. Waddington
  • Aretino at Home / Harald Hendrix
  • Part 2. Criticism and Satire
  • "Pietro Aretino, the Ferocious Prophet" and Pasquino / Chiara Lastraioli
  • Aretino and the Court / Paola Ugolini
  • Two or Three Things I Know about Her: Aretino's Ragionamenti / Ian F. Moulton
  • Part 3. Arts
  • Aretino, Titian and the Painters of Venice / Philip Cottrell
  • Veritas Odium Parit: Uses and Misuses of Music in Aretino's Sei giornate / Cathy Ann Elias
  • Part 4. Literary Genres
  • Pietro Aretino, Poet / Angelo Romano
  • "A Knot of Barely Sketched Figures:" Pietro Aretino's Chivalric Poems / Maria Cristina Cabani
  • Aretino's Theater / Deanna Shemek and Jane Tylus
  • Under Aretino's Sign: Forgeries and Imitations of the Scourge of Princes / Giuseppe Crimi
  • Part 5. Religion
  • Prose and Theology in Aretino's Religious Works / Élise Boillet
  • The Three Hagiographies: Writing about Saints in the Age of the Council / Paolo Marini
  • Itineraries of the Rhetoric of Images in the Religious Works of Pietro Aretino / Augusto Gentili
  • The Fortune of Aretino's Religious Works after the Council of Trent / Eleonora Carinci
  • Part 6. Networks
  • Aretino as a Writer of Letters / Paul Larivaille
  • Pietro Aretino and Publication / Brian Richardson
  • Aretino as a Target for Criticism, and His Enemies from Berni to Muzio / Paolo Procaccioli
  • Part 7. Afterlife
  • Aretino's Troubled Afterlife / Harald Hendrix.