Pierre Arétin

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Pierre Arétin , in Italian Pietro Aretino , born the April 20th 1492 with Arezzo and dead the October 21st 1556 with Venice, is a writer and Dramaturge Italy N.

Pierre Arétin was born in 1492 in Arezzo (Arétin meaning “coming from Arezzo”). Banished its birthplace, it spends one decade to Perugia before being sent to Rome, where the banking rich person Agostino Chigi, patron of Raphaël takes it under his wing. Arétin makes speak about him in Rome through its corrosive satires and the Sonnets Luxurieux (Sonetti lussuriosi), rather raw parts which were used as textual accompaniment with 16 pornographic illustrations of Giulio Romano. This variation is worth to him to lose the protection of the pope Leon X. Its Ragionamenti , remarks of a prostitute with various interlocutors turned like reasoning in the form of Platonic dialog, turn in derision the company of its time and particularly the sacraments religious (monastic vows, marriage).

After an attempted murder on its person, Arétin leaves food to Mantoue, then finally with Venice (the Italian city most opposed to the pope) in 1527, where it remains until his death.

Arétin is the author of five comedies (of which Cortigiana and Talenta ) and of tragedy the “Horaces” (1546). At the time of its stay in Venice, it also publishes its correspondence, thus pressurizing all that Italy counted of notable. It does not save in its satirical writings the princes and the large ones, which makes it call the Fléau of the Princes : the majority, to avoid the features of its satire, make him considerable present, some, however, pay it only with the stick. Thus François I {{er}} and the emperor Charles Quint subsidizes it at the same time, each one hoping for some damage for its rival. Full with vanity, it is called itself the divine Arétin .

On the end of its life, Arétin publishes various pious works in addition (an Italian translation of the Psaume S of David, three books “on the humanity of Jesus Christ” as well as a book on the passion of Christ).

According to the tradition, the death of Arétin would have been with its image: it is told that, during a heavy meal, a joke particularly obscene caused at Arétin an incredible crisis of laughing, so much so that it fell to the shift and split cranium.

Arétin was a personal friend of the Titien, which made at least three portraits of him. After his death, the pope Paul IV put his books at the Index. He was a close relation of Giuseppe Betussi.

Quotations

“ the ambition is the manure of glory ”

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