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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.
Aretino (Italian) [areˈtiːno]
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(Biographies / Aretino, Pietro (1492-1556) M, Italian, WRITING: satirist, WRITING: poet, THEATRE: dramatist) Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1492-1556, Italian satirist, poet, and dramatist, noted for his satirical attacks on leading political figures


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We walk toward the Hotel Belvedere on Via Borgo Aretino, passing upscale boutiques along the way.
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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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