A Satirist's Impresa : The Medals of Pietro Aretino
1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2862276
ISSN1935-0236
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Art and Architecture Studies
ResumoCharacterized by Burckhardt as the father of modernjournalism, Pietro Aretino was the first vernacular writer to understand and exploit fully the resource of the printing press. But while some kinds of his writings anticipate now conventional varieties of journalism, such a label slights the more literary of his activities in drama, poetry, hagiography, and prose dialogue. The protean variety of Aretino's works made him both successor to Bembo as the leading man of letters in the 1530s and 40s and the model for the poligrafi who would succeed him. As with those poligrafi, a coherence to his activities can be seen in his posture as social critic; preeminently, in his secular compositions, Aretino writes as a satirist.
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