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Pietro Aretino, an Italian Renaissance author and satirist, was born on April 20, 1492, and died on October 21, 1556. Known for his sharp satire and exposure of social darkness, Aretino's works have had a profound impact on literature.

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“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

Mind Heart Art Bears Ought Adversity Cowardice Calamity Grandeur Fleeing

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“The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.”

Art War Might Conflict Slave Desperation Art Of War Courtesans

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“Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.”

Knows Art Ends Practice Produce Exercise Sorrow Delight Seeds Repentance Laziness Shut Up Sloth

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“Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.”

Men May Art Book Values Father Greater He Man Son Judgment Filled Chests

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“Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.”

Art Nature Practice Exercise Seeds Shut Up

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About the Author

Born: April 20, 1492
Died: October 21, 1556
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Quotes: 36

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The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. AppendixRelated source material

The School of WhoredomRelated source material

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