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Pietro Aretino
Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pietro Aretino (US: /ˌɑːrɪˈtiːnoʊ, ˌær-/,[1][2] Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro areˈtiːno]; 19 or 20 April 1492[3] – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics. He was one of the most influential writers of his time and an outspoken critic of the powerful.[4] Owing to his communications and sympathies with religious reformers, he is considered to have been a Nicodemite Protestant.[5][6][7][8]
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Born | 19 or (1492-04-20)20 April 1492 Arezzo, Republic of Florence (present-day Tuscany, Italy) |
Died | 21 October 1556(1556-10-21) (aged 64) Venice, Republic of Venice (present-day Veneto, Italy) |
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