This is Part IV of a four-part entry on the life of Pietro Aretino the genius and madman behind the ‘invention’ of pornography. Part one was about his early life and his inspirations, and can be found here. Part two was about his involvement with the first work of pornography, I Modi and can be found here. The third entry delves into an assassination attempt by the Church and the first part his greatest work, The Dialogues, and can be found here. This is the fourth and final entry, and it wraps-up The Dialogues with the Secret Lives of Wives and the School of Whoredom and the final years of Aretino’s life.
-Annalspornographie
