Aretino's Troubled Afterlife
Publication date
2021-09
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