Aretino's Troubled Afterlife

Publication date

2021-09

Authors

Hendrix, HaraldISNI 0000000078216099

Editors

Faini, Marco
Ugolini, Paola

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Abstract

This chapter describes and analyzes the ambivalent reception of the Italian author Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), both during his lifetime and after his death, up to the advent of modern literary historiography in the mid 19th century.

Keywords

Pietro Aretino, Italian Literature, renaissance studies, Reception Studies, pornography, Libertinism

Citation

Hendrix, H 2021, Aretino's Troubled Afterlife. in M Faini & P Ugolini (eds), A Companion to Pietro Aretino. The Renaissance Society of America Text and Studies Series, vol. 18, Brill, Leiden / Boston, pp. 529-543. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004465190_021