Author

       G. Fusinati

   Title

 Pietro Aretino

  Technique/Tecnique   

     Original burin engraving

  Original Engraving

     Period/period

      1836

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  Excellent apart from mild folds

   Very Nice Apart Light Folds

   Size

   Image/Picture 13 cm for 13 ca.

    The sheet/Sheet 25 cm for approx. 16

It is a 1836 original burgin engraving not a modern or photoengraving reproduction.

      It's an original engraving by 1836 Not A Modern Copy or Photo.

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Pietro Aretino (Arezzo, April 20 1492 - Venice, 21 October 1556) It was a poet, writer And playwright Italian.

He is mainly known for some of his writings by the content considered as much more licentious (at least for the time), including the well -known Lustful sonnets. He also wrote i Amorous doubts and works of content religious aimed to make it well in the environment cardinal who long attended.

Figure of literate loved what was discussed, if not hated (and for many he was simply an eagerness and an unscrupulous courtesan).

For this that today could appear inconsistency was, in many ways, a model of the intellectual Renaissance, also the author of appreciated Reasoning.

Biography [change]

The figure of Pietro Aretino marked in a certain way the 16th century contributing in a decisive way to the definitive overcoming of vision theological and ethics proper tomiddle age.

Little is known about his childhood. The only thing that would be certain is that it was born in the night between 19 and 20 April 1492, the result of a relationship between a poor shoemaker named Luca Del Buta and one courtesan, Margherita dei Bonci called Tita^[2], model carved and painted by several artists^[3].

Son of courtesan, soul of king [change]

It has been said that he never wanted to make his real name and his true origins known as a sign of disavowal to his Christmas. However he likes to call himself son of the courtesan, with a soul of king.

He wrote in the Letters:

While of his childhood there is practically nothing, his own biographers report that fourteen year old or a little more lived a Perugia, where he studied painting, then attending the place university.

Moved to 1517 to Rome, thanks to the good offices of Agostino Chigi (who also kept the court on his court painter Raffaello), set out at the service of the cardinal Giulio de 'Medici and he also managed to land at the court of Pope Leo X. It was found in the eternal city When the conclave of 1522: And it was probably at that time that he wrote one of his first works, the so -called Pasquinate, that is, poems satyrical written on the basis of anonymous protests against the Curia posted on the marble bust of Pasquino, a Piazza Navona. Because of these compositions he was exiled by the new pontiff, a Flemish cardinal who will take the name of Pope Adriano VI (from Pietro nicknamed the German grip). He could return to the 1523 to Rome only with the advent of Pope Clement VII: however, he began to feed a heavy impatience towards the shorts and ecclesiastical environments. The famous self -portrait of Parmigianino in the convex mirror and was impressed by the "invention" of the young artist which Vasari comments on: "I remember, I remember, I was a young man, to have seen in Arezzo in the houses of it Messer Pietro Aretino, where he was seen by the foreigners, who for that city passed, as a rare thing, was impressed. This happened then, I don't know how, in the hands of Valerio Vicentino crystal carver, and today is alongside Alessandro Vittoria, sculptor in Vinezia .... ".

In 1525 he decided to leave definitively Rome and spent two years a Mantua at the service of Giovanni from the black bands with which he made a sincere friendship.

Finally in the 1527 moves to Venice where he publishes numerous compositions and where he died in 1556. By his adulators he was called divine, appellation that he liked and of which he was screwed; while for his satires and his motteggi he was called scourge of principles,^[5] Just as he also remembers Ariosto in the'Orlando Furioso:

Lustful sonnets [change]

Erotic scene, work of Édouard-Henri Avril, 1892, taken from Lustful sonnets by Pietro Aretino.

Erotic scene, work of Édouard-Henri Avril, 1892, taken from Lustful sonnets by Pietro Aretino.

Erotic scene, work of Édouard-Henri Avril, 1892, taken from Lustful sonnets by Pietro Aretino.

The composition of the Lustful sonnets, which had been inspired by erotic engravings, considered to the limits of the pornography and made by the painter Marcantonio Raimondi on drawings by Giulio Romano, published for the first time in 1524 under the title Ways or The 16 positions and subsequently, together with the paintings and the Sonnets, in 1527; In the same period he also wrote the text theatrical The courtesan, comedy set on antecedent to the sack of Rome and parody de Cortegiano Of Baldassarre Castiglione.

On a collision course with the Vatican environment, Pietro Aretino in March of 1527 he left Rome to move to Venice. In the lagoon city - place, according to him and that time, an anti -northwood par excellence and home of every possible vice - after the rest of life by writing and publishing most of his works, up to death, located on October 21st 1556 presumably due to a stroke (according to some, due to excess of laughter).

The composer Michael Nyman (famous above all for the soundtrack of Plan lessons) recently set the eight sonnets in a CD entitled 8 list songs: lustful sonnets, interpreted by the soprano Marie Angel. The album is released in November 2008 from the MN Records.

Main works [change]

• Lustful sonnets
• Amorous doubts ^[6]
• Letters
• Reasoning
• Orlandino

Comedies:

• Fraza
• The courtesan
• The marescalco
• Talanta
• It hypocritus
• The philosopher

Tragedies:

• Hourly