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Aretino

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A·re·ti·no  (r-tn, är-), Pietro 1492-1556.
Italian writer and satirist best known for his literary attacks on his wealthy and powerful contemporaries and for six volumes of letters.

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We walk toward the Hotel Belvedere on Via Borgo Aretino, passing upscale boutiques along the way.
The Senator and the School-master: Friends of Leonardo Bruni Aretino in a New Letter.
At various points he calls upon, to select only a few of almost countless examples, the twelfth-century moralist Peter the Chanter, Dante's thirteenth-century friend Brunetto Latini, the fourteenth-century poets William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer, the fifteenth-century essayists Leon Battista Alberti and Christine de Pizan and the philosopher Marsilio Ficino, and the sixteenth-century satirists Francois Rabelais and Pietro Aretino.
 
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