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Pietro Aretino was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics and developed modern literary pornography.

✵ 1492 – 21. October 1556
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Famous Pietro Aretino Quotes

“Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”

Pietro Aretino

Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 143

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”

Pietro Aretino

“I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

Pietro Aretino

Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 152

“What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.”

Pietro Aretino

Edward Hutton (1922) Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes. p. 65

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