Aretino,Pietro

Aretino,Pietro
A·re·ti·no (ăr'ə-tēʹnō, är'-), Pietro. 1492-1556.
Italian writer and satirist best known for his literary attacks on his wealthy and powerful contemporaries and for six volumes of letters.

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