Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art »

Raymond B. Waddington is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

Waddington (English, U. of California-Davis) examines Italian playwright and satirist Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) use of new media and new literary kinds to project a construct of himself that overwhelmed any of his individual works. Particularly, he shows how he promoted himself as the satyr, an embodiment of the mythical being associated with unbridled sexuality and truthfulness. He discusses revaluing sexuality; print culture; portraits in words, wood, and bronze; satyr and satirist; and serious play. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR