| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 279 pages) : 65 illustrations |
| Series |
Toronto Italian studies |
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Toronto Italian studies.
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| Contents |
1. Ostentatio genitalium: Revaluing Sexuality 3 -- Priapus and the Satyr 11 -- Aretino as Counter-Petrarch 20 -- 2. Aretino and Print Culture 33 -- Printing and Prostitution 34 -- The New Man of Letters 45 -- 3. The Better Image: Portraits in Words, Wood, and Bronze 57 -- Portraits of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Man 61 -- Aretino and Medals 69 -- Leone Leoni 75 -- Alessandro Vittoria 78 -- Adria's Medal 83 -- 4. Satyr and Satirist 91 -- Truth and the Satyr 93 -- Veritas Odium Parit 96 -- Images of Truth 103 -- Phallic Satyrs 109 -- 5. Serious Play: From Satyr to Silenus 117 -- Arcimboldo's Composite Portraits 122 -- The Silenus of Alcibiades 124 -- Satyr Art and Satyric Portraits 132 -- Marsyas 144 -- Epilogue: Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas 153 |
| Summary |
Pietro Aretino's literary influence was felt throughout most of Europe during the sixteenth-century, yet English-language criticism of this writer's work and persona has hitherto been sparse. Raymond B. Waddington's study redresses this oversight, drawing together literary and visual arts criticism in its examination of Aretino's carefully cultivated scandalous persona a persona created through his writings, his behaviour and through a wide variety of visual arts and crafts. In the Renaissance, it was believed that satire originated from satyrs. The satirist Aretino promoted himself as a satyr, the natural being whose sexuality guarantees its truthfulness. Waddington shows how Aretino's own construction of his public identity came to eclipse the value of his writings, causing him to be denigrated as a pornographer and blackmailer. Arguing that Aretino's deployment of an artistic network for self-promotional ends was so successful that for a period his face was possibly the most famous in Western Europe, Waddington also defends Aretino, describing his involvement in the larger sphere of the production and promotion of the visual arts of the period. Aretino's Satyr is richly illustrated with examples of the visual media used by the writer to create his persona. These include portraits by major artists, and arti minori: engravings, portrait medals and woodcuts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556 fast |
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Aretino, Pietro. swd |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442670976 |
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1442670975 |
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1281994685 |
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9781281994684 |
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