Pietro Aretino was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography. Born out of wedlock in Arezzo ("Aretino", "from Arezzo"), very casually educated then banished from his native city, Aretino spent a formative decade in Perugia, before being sent, highly recommended, to Rome. There Agostino Chigi, the rich banker and patron of Raphael, took him under his wing. Wikipedia
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Perhaps the most vigorous and versatile vernacular writer of the 16th century Aretino rejected the family name of his wastrel cobbler father and preferred to be known as Pietro 'of Arezzo' (his birthplace). www.wga.hu/database/glossary/illustri/aretino.html
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