Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art PDF
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ARETINO'S SATYR SEXUALITY, SATIRE, AND SELF-PROJECTION IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND ART This page intentionally left blank Aretino's Satyr Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art Raymond B. Waddington UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2004 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-8814-7 Printed on acid-free paper Toronto Italian Studies National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Waddington, Raymond B. Aretino's satyr: sexuality, satire and self-projection in sixteenth-century literature and art / Raymond Waddington. (Toronto Italian studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8020-8814-7 1. Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556 - Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PQ4564. W33 2003 858'. 309 C2003-903076-8 This volume was published with the financial assistance of the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, College of Letters and Science, and the Office of Research, University of California, Davis. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). For Kathie and in memory of Peter Marinelli This page intentionally left blank Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xvii Note on Texts, Translations, and Citations xxvii Abbreviations xxix 1. Ostentatio genitalium: Revaluing Sexuality 3 Priapus and the Satyr 11 Aretino as Counter-Petrarch 20 Coda 30 2. Aretino and Print Culture 33 Printing and Prostitution 34 The New Man of Letters 45 3. The Better Image: Portraits in Words, Wood, and Bronze 57 Portraits of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Man 61 Aretino and Medals 69 Leone Leoni 75 Alessandro Vittoria 78 Adria's Medal 83 viii Contents 4. Satyr and Satirist 91 Truth and the Satyr 93 Veritas Odium Parit 96 Images of Truth 103 Phallic Satyrs 109 5. Serious Play: From Satyr to Silenus 117 Arcimboldo's Composite Portraits 122 The Silenus of Alcibiades 124 Satyr Art and Satyric Portraits 132 Marsyas 144 Epilogue: Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas 153 Notes 159 Bibliography 237 Name Index 269 Subject Index 277 Illustrations follow page 66. Illustrations Chapter 1 1. 'Priapus and Lotos, ' woodcut from Giovanni de' Bonsignori, Ovidio metamorphoseos vulgare (1501). 2. 'Garden of Priapus, ' engraving by Master L. D. after Primaticcio. 3. 'Worship of Priapus, ' woodcut from Francesco Colonna, Hypnero- tomachia Poliphili (1499). 4. 'Priapus and Lotis/ engraving by Master I. B. with the Bird (Giovanni Battista Palumba). 5. Giovanni da Udine, priapic festoon, Loggia of Psyche (Farnesina). 6. 'Pasquino' (1546), engraving from Antoine Lafréry, Speculum romanae magnificentiae. 7. Title-page woodcut, design by Titian, Stanze in lode di Madonna Angela Sirena (1537). 8. Waldeck drawing, after Marcantonio Raimondi engraving, I modi, no. 14. 9. Engraving after Marcantonio Raimondi, I modi, no. 1. 10. Dürer, Self-Portrait, pen and brush drawing, Weimar. Chapter 3 11. Title-page, Lettere del signor Francesco Visdomini (1630). 12. Quentin Matsys, medal of Erasmus (1519). 13. Dürer, 'Erasmus of Rotterdam, ' engraving (1526). 14. Author-portrait, woodcut from Paulus Attavanti Florentinus, Breviarum totius juris canonici (1479).
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