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Aretino's Dialogues.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moravia, Alberto (Contribuidor), Rosenthal, Margaret (Contribuidor), Rosenthal, Raymond (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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