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"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 the sexual explicitness and the vulgar language that characterized much of his work."...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Aretino for 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
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