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Call for Papers, Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York)
Novelty and Unorthodoxy in the Works of Pietro Aretino
One of the most prolific and controversial figures of sixteenth-century Italy, called both divine and infamous, labeled a court poet, a pimp, a journalist, a pornographer, and much more, Pietro Aretino has successfully outwitted attempts to integrate his life and works into a coherent narrative. Although recent decades have witnessed a renewed interest in Aretino’s works, much remains to be done to fully overcome the scholarly prejudice that has for a long time relegated Aretino’s writings to the field of marginal—or often even amoral—literature, and reduced his complex figure to the stereotype of a blasphemous ribald. Our panel(s) are envisioned with the goal of investigating the multifaceted aspects of Aretino’s literary production and artistic persona, focusing in particular on the way in which Aretino was employing original strategies and recently developed media to both criticize dominant culture and flatter potential patrons, to formulate alternative cultural frameworks, to fashion for himself a new kind of character, and to devise an unprecedented career path.
Possible paper topics include:
- The invention of the figure of the poligrafo.
- Aretino and print culture.
- Aretino and Venice.
- Aretino’s relationship with the Venetian nobility.
- Satire and the figure of the satirist.
- Aretino’s critique of courtliness and court culture.
- Aretino and his patrons.
- Aretino’s relation to Pietro Bembo and to Petrarchism.
- Aretino and religious debates.
- Heresy and religious unorthodoxy.
- The discovery of the world of the senses in Aretino’s works.
Please send a 150-word abstract and a one-page c.v. by May 15, 2013 to
Paola Ugolini ([log in to unmask]) and Marco Faini ([log in to unmask])
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