Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretinowas an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 April 1492
CountryItaly
strong distance home
Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.
life reality glasses
Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.
men worry style
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
kings heart son
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.
anger mind desire
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
grew fatherland manhood
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
home men want
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
friendship true-friend real-friends
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
suffering contentment merit
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
spring wine winter
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
art exercise practice
Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.
inspirational life motivational
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
taken men honor
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
anger pride men
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.