* April 20 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author ( d. 1556 )

Pietro Aretino, an Italian Renaissance writer, wrote a series of dialogues ( Capricciosi ragionamenti ) in which a mother teaches her daughter what options are available to women and how to be an effective courtesan.

* October 21 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author ( b. 1492 )

* Pietro Aretino, author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.

The Orlandino of Pietro Aretino then waxed satirical about the " cult of personality " of Orlando the hero.

Hanno was also the subject of a satirical pamphlet by Pietro Aretino titled " The Last Will and Testament of the Elephant Hanno.

The I Modi prints are highly pornographic and accompanied sonnets by Pietro Aretino.

* Lawner, L., 1988: I Modi: the sixteen pleasures: an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance: Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino, and Count Jean-Frederic-Maximilien de Waldeck.

These four works were greeted with signal and general applause, including that of Titian's intimate, the too potent Pietro Aretino, with whom Tintoretto, one of the few men who scorned to curry favor with him, was mostly in disrepute.

In the early 16th century, the text I Modi was an woodcut album created by the designer Giulio Romano, the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi and the poet Pietro Aretino.

The 16th century was notable for the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre ( 1558 ), inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron and the notorious I Modi which married erotic drawings, depicting postures assumed in sexual intercourse, by Giulio Romano, with obscene sonnets by Pietro Aretino.

Der Tod des Dichters Pietro Aretino by Anselm Feuerbach.

* In 1556, Pietro Aretino " is said to have died of suffocation from laughing too much ".

Pietro Aretino, in Titian's first portrait of him

Der Tod des Dichters Pietro Aretino by Anselm Feuerbach.

Pietro Aretino ( 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556 ) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.

Portrait of Pietro Aretino, by Titian, 1545 ( Palazzo Pitti )

The Divine Aretino Pietro of Arezzo, 1492 – 1556, A Biography

Pietro Aretino: The scourge of princes.

* Luba Freedman, Pietro Aretino, Titian's Portraits Through Aretino's Lens, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-271-01339-8.

* All the works of Pietro Aretino.

The group included Vincenzo Galilei ( father of the astronomer Galileo ), Giulio Caccini, and Pietro Strozzi, and derived its inspiration from a correspondence with Girolamo Mei, the foremost scholar of ancient Greek drama and music at the time.

Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France.

But Pietro Aldobrandini, the leader of the Italian party among the cardinals, allied with the French cardinals and brought about the election of Alessandro against the express wish of King Philip III of Spain.

* English web site about Pietro Mascagni

* Official Italian web site about Pietro Mascagni

He had signed the contract in July 1835 to present Belisario in Venice, for what would be the first visit to that city since 1819, but it was not until October that the subject was finally agreed upon, and there followed discussions with impressario Natale Fabbrici about employing a Venetian librettist, Pietro Beltrame.

Notable also the many mansions of the Plain, where are the agricultural villages of San Pietro, Santa Marina ( the two most populous, inhabited by about 2000 people each ), and then Scaccia, San Marco, Park, Grazia, Fiumarella and Olivarella ( the latter shared with the City of San Filippo del Mela ).

Pietro, his father, aged about fifty, belonged to an old family of Lecco, originally feudal lords of Barzio, in the Valsassina.

The Battle of San Pietro is a 1945 documentary film directed by John Huston about the Battle of San Pietro Infine during World War II.

Some of the authors who have written about the Italian American experience are Pietro Di Donato ; Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; Dana Gioia, Executive Director of the National Endowment for the Arts ; John Fusco, author of Paradise Salvage ; and Daniela Gioseffi, winner of the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry and The American Book Award.

* The character Pietro Cardinal Bembo also features prominently in Baldassare Castiglione's work The Book of the Courtier where he speaks about the nature of " Platonic " love.

Her father's name was Pietro Del Duce and when she discovered that fact she interrupted searches about this man because she did not want to be " Duce's daughter!

Pietro Casola, an Italian noble who traveled to Jerusalem in 1494, wrote about the wines and cuisines of the places he stopped at along the way.

To cash in on the success of the Kirk Douglas film Ulysses, Pietro Francisci planned to make a film about Hercules, but searched unsuccessfully for years for a physcially convincing yet experienced actor.

Pietro della Valle ( 1586 – 1652 ) is cited in Gavin Young's Return to the Marshes as the earliest modern traveler to write about Mesopotamia and probably the first to introduce the word Madi, which he spelled " Maedi ," to the Western world.

Di Pietro said that Kewell was about to holiday with his family and had indicated he would seriously consider the Melbourne Victory offer.

During the limited series title Vision and the Scarlet Witch, Magneto forces Bova to reveal the truth about his missing children, who are revealed to be Pietro and Wanda.

For about fifty years Pirovano, helped by the engineer Pietro Brunati, ran the construction of the village.

One prisoner, a deserter from the Austrian army who had pretended to be an Italian, was allowed to live, as a citizen of the Reich ; and he was the only witness to tell the tale of the courageous behavior of the Resistance priest, Don Pietro Pappagallo, who blessed those about to be killed, before himself meeting his fate.

Here is a scholar of his Pietro Belloni ?, but vastly inferior to him, and so slow in working that he has been almost three years about a pair for a Mr Leson Leeson, and requires still six months more.

Ficino hoped that a purified philosophy would bring about a religious renewal in his society and therefore transformed distateful aspects of Platonic philosophy ( for instance, the homosexual love exalted in the Symposium ) into spiritual love ( i. e., Platonic love ), something later transformed by Pietro Bembo and Baldassar Castiglione in the early sixteenth century as something also applicable to relationships between men and women.

Since De Magistris's strong showing in the 2009 European election ( when he got more personal votes than Di Pietro ) there were rumors about an underground row between him and Di Pietro for the leaderhip of the party, even if both denied there was any divergence between them.