A Companion to Pietro Aretino

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-34805-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1269 g

Reihe: The Renaissance Society of America

A Companion to Pietro Aretino offers exhaustive yet accessible essays aimed at understanding this complex and fascinating author. Its scope extends beyond the field of Italian studies, and includes references to other European literatures, visual arts, music, performance studies, gender studies, and social and religious history. It explores multiple areas of Aretino’s literary and biographical identity: in particular, his religious writings and their fortune, his relationships to visual arts and music, and his fashioning of a public persona. The essays here included support the current scholarly trend that no longer considers Aretino merely as a pornographer, but interpret his work in the light of the contemporary religious debate and cultural crisis.

Contributors include Élise Boillet, Maria Cristina Cabani, Eleonora Carinci, Philip Cottrell, Giuseppe Crimi, Cathy Ann Elias, Marco Faini, Augusto Gentili, Harald Hendrix, Paul Larivaille, Chiara Lastraioli, Paolo Marini, Ian F. Moulton, Paolo Procaccioli, Brian Richardson, Angelo Romano, Deanna Shemek, Jane Tylus, Paola Ugolini, and Raymond B. Waddington.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faini, Marco

Ugolini, Paola

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Timeline: Pietro Aretino in Context

Bibliographical Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Marco Faini and Paola Ugolini

Part 1 Selfhood and the Public Sphere

1 Inventing the Celebrity Author

Raymond B. Waddington

2 Aretino at Home

Harald Hendrix

Part 2 Criticism and Satire

3 “Pietro Aretino, the Ferocious Prophet” and Pasquino

Chiara Lastraioli

4 Aretino and the Court

Paola Ugolini

5 Two or Three Things I Know about Her: Aretino’s Ragionamenti

Ian F. Moulton

Part 3 Arts

6 Aretino, Titian and the Painters of Venice

Philip Cottrell

7 Veritas Odium Parit: Uses and Misuses of Music in Aretino’s Sei giornate

Cathy Ann Elias

Part 4 Literary Genres

8 Pietro Aretino, Poet

Angelo Romano

9 “A Knot of Barely Sketched Figures:” Pietro Aretino’s Chivalric Poems

Maria Cristina Cabani

10 Aretino’s Theater

Deanna Shemek and Jane Tylus

11 Under Aretino’s Sign: Forgeries and Imitations of the Scourge of Princes

Giuseppe Crimi

Part 5 Religion

12 Prose and Theology in Aretino’s Religious Works

Élise Boillet

13 The Three Hagiographies: Writing about Saints in the Age of the Council

Paolo Marini

14 Itineraries of the Rhetoric of Images in the Religious Works of Pietro Aretino

Augusto Gentili

15 The Fortune of Aretino’s Religious Works after the Council of Trent

Eleonora Carinci

Part 6 Networks

16 Aretino as a Writer of Letters

Paul Larivaille

17 Pietro Aretino and Publication

Brian Richardson

18 Aretino as a Target for Criticism, and His Enemies from Berni to Muzio

Paolo Procaccioli

Part 7 Afterlife

19 Aretino’s Troubled Afterlife

Harald Hendrix

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paola Ugolini, Ph.D. (2011, New York University) is Associate Professor of Italian at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of The Court and Its Critics. Anti-Court Sentimens in Early Modern Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2020).

Marco Faini, Ph.D. (2005, University of Urbino) is Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Universities of Venice and Toronto. He is the co-editor of Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy and Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World (Brill, 2019).