Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- Aretino, 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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He is also called Aretino from the city of his birth.
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"Aretino" of the Pitti Palace, the "Eleanora of Portugal" (Madrid), and the series of Charles Fifths of the same museum, the "Charles V with a Greyhound" (1533), and especially the "Charles V at
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The passage explained that “Aretino” indicated that he was from the town of Arezzo.
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Sandro swallowed hard as he recognized the Spinello Aretino masterpiece from Sansepolcro.
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The great Luca Spinello Aretino created her for the Confraternity of Mary Magdalene, which as you likely know is a public profile of the Order in this part of Tuscany.
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The name “Aretino” means “from Arezzo,” which is a province in Tuscany.
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My edition of Cocaine in a 1982 translation by Frédérique Van Der Velde for the Dutch-language imprint Goossens, which also published translations of Thérèse philosophe, Villon, and Aretino
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Alcibiade Fanciullo a Scola, D.P. A. (supposed to be Pietro Aretino — ad captandum?), Oranges, par
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Are we agreed that sexual acts Aretino are unacceptable for depiction in a public place?
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But even that is not as obscene as "I Modi," the book of sonnets that Aretino penned to accompany the graphic illustrations by Giulio Romano, at his best a superb artist.
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