The Pietro Aretino Page


( 1492-1556 )
Works by Aretino
Samuel Putnam translated The Works of Aretino. Pascal Covici, 1926. There is a biographical and critical essay by Putnam and a sketch by De Sanctis from his History of Italian Literature.
Five Comedies, including:

• The Courtesan. A Comedy ( 1525 ). Translated in Putnam, above.
• The Stablemaster. A comedy ( 1526 or 1527 ). In Five Italian Renaissance Comedies. Penguin.

Dialogues ( I Dialoghi, 1536 ).
Letters ( 1537-1557 ). Translated by T.C. Chubb. Archon, 1967.
Dialogues ( I Ragionamenti, 1600 ). Translated by Raymond Rosenthal, Stein and Day, 1971.

About Aretino
Chubb, Thomas Caldecott, Aretino, Scourge of Princes. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1940.
Putnam, Samuel, "Pietro Aretino, Poison-flower of the Renaissance," in The Works of Aretino. See above. 1926.
Biography of Aretino from Web Gallery of Art. Includes Titian's portrait of him.

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