Pietro Aretino, in Titian's first portrait of him St Bartholomew (Aretino was the model) displaying his flayed skin, in The Last Judgment by Michelangelo. Der Tod des Dichters Pietro Aretino by Anselm Feuerbach. Pietro Aretino (20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer, who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.
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Pietro Aretino, in Titian's first portrait of him St Bartholomew (Aretino was the model) displaying his flayed skin, in The Last Judgment by Michelangelo. Der Tod des Dichters Pietro Aretino by Anselm Feuerbach. Pietro Aretino (20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer, who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.