20 April 1492 21 October 1556 Pietro Aretino was born on 20 April 1492 to Arezzo. Little is known of his childhood, except that Peter is the son of Margherita of Bonci said Tita, a courtesan, and Luke Of Buta, a shoemaker. Around 14 years old, he moved to Perugia, where he can study painting and later attend the local University. In 1517, after composing the "Opera nova of Pietro Aretino Pictore Fecundissimo Giovene," moves to Rome: by the intervention of Agostino Chigi-wealthy banker-find jobs at Cardinal Giulio de ' Medici, arriving at the Court of Pope Leo X. whilst in 1522 in the eternal city unfolds the conclave, Pietro Aretino writes so-called "Pasquinate": one of his first works , composed satirical poems inspired by the anonymous protests directed against the Curia and placed in piazza Navona on marble bust of Pasquino. These works, however, costing the exile, established by the new Pope Adrian VI, a Flemish dubbed by Cardinal Pietro "Germany's itch". Returned to Rome in 1523 due to nomination to the papacy of Pope Clement VII, however, begins to appear intolerant towards Church environments and the courts. After receiving the gift of "Self-portrait in a mirror I confess" by Parmigianino and writing "The Acting hypocritical", decides to leave Rome in 1525, probably because of the clash with the Bishop Gianmatteo Giberti (who, annoyed by the unseemly comedy painting "Courtesan" and "lustful Sonnets", had even hired a hit man to kill him): he settled then in Mantua, where he spent two years in the company of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere , for which he served. In 1527 Pietro Aretino moves to Venice, along with printer Francesco Marcolini from Forlì, after publishing a collection of outrageous erotic sonnets ("Sonnets over XVI ways") who agree to make a change. In the lagoon city can count on greater freedom, as well as take advantage of the substantial development achieved by the printing industry. Here Peter manages to remain simply writing without being obliged to serve at a ladies. Experiment with different literary genres, from comedy to tragedy, from the dialogue, humorous poem of chivalry, from popular epistolography obscene literature. Holding a deep friendship with Titian, that shows him repeatedly, and Jacopo Sansovino. Writes, in 1527, "Courtesan"; in 1533 "The marescaldo"; in 1534 Marfisa. Know, also, the condottiere Cesare Fregoso, while the Marquis Aloisio Gonzaga hosts in Castel Goffredo in 1536. In recent years made up "Nanna's reasoning and Antonia done at Rome under a ficaia" and "dialogue in which the Nanna teaches her daughter Pippa", while the 1540 was the "Obi". After realizing the "Delightful" in 1540, 1542, "" Annie "and" Talents "the philosopher" in 1546, Pietro Aretino died on 21 October 1556 in Venice, probably as a consequence of a stroke, perhaps due to an excess of laughter.