Poetry by Aretino

• Sonetti lussuriosi
  Erotically explicit sonnets written to accompany Marcantonio Raimondi's engravings of Giulio Romano's drawings of sexual positions in I Modi
  • 1526
• Dubbi amorosi
  A series of questions and answers on erotic matters, expressed as poems in ottava rima and quatrains.
  • 1526
• Orlandino
  • 1540

Prose by Aretino

• Lettere
• Ragionamenti (de) A pair of Renaissance dialogues. In the Dialogue of Nanna and Antonia under a fig-tree in Rome (1534), the two women discuss the life options open to Nanna's daughter, Pippa, to become a nun, a wife or a whore. In the follow-up Dialogue in which Nanna teaches her daughter Pippa (1536), the relations between prostitutes and their clients are discussed.
  • 1534, 1536

Plays

• Farza
• La cortigiana (de)
  Comedy in five acts, a parody of the then-unpublished Il cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione. First performance possibly in carnival 1525. A revised version was published in Venice in 1534.
  • 1525, 1534
• Il marescalco (de)
  Comedy in five acts. The play served as a source for Malipiero's opera of the same name (Treviso, 1969).
  • 1533
• La talanta (de)
  Comedy in five acts.
  • 1542
• Lo ipocrito (de)
  Comedy in five acts.
  • 1542
• Il filosofo (de)
  Comedy in five acts.
  • 1546
• L'Orazia
  Tragedy in verse.
  • 1546

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