Cortigiana

by Pietro Aretino, J. Douglas Campbell (Translator), Leonard G. Sprocchi (Translator)

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Genres: Italian Literature

175 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1525

About the author

Pietro Aretino was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.

Reviews

[Davide]

[23 maggio 2012]

"Si potrebbe ben dire che al governo di questa spettacolosa satira romana vi è un Pasquino più agile e più maturo di quello che aveva già satireggiato il conclave del '21-22 e che La Cortigiana '25 è tutta una grande pasquinata [...]" (dalla bella introduzione di Giuliano Innamorati)

[júls · Rating 2 out of 5]

2'5 porque tampoco lo he odiado tanto pero ?? irrelevante

[Luca Urbani · Rating 2 out of 5]

La lode che s'acquista in non lasciarsi offendere avanza la gloria che si guadagna vendicandosi.

[Aaron Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Aretino's outrageous follow-up to Il Marescalco seems to me unique in the Italian commedia erudita. It is inspired by and refers to I Suppositi, La Mandragola, and La Calandra, for certain, but it is doing lots of its own things. For one, there is no marriage in this play. In fact, there are no young lovers at all, and, indeed, no young women! Quite a surprise, really. Further, the men and women who play the pranks at the center of this play receive no punishment for their vicious antics. La Cortigiana moves at a breakneck pace, alternating between two very similar gulling plots but spending the majority of its time making fun of the city of Rome itself, as well as the papacy.