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Pietro Aretino

b: Arezzo, Italy, Apr 20, 1492

d: Venice, Italy, Oct 21, 1556

"The Scourge of Princes" Italian. Poet. Dramatist. Satirist: works include Lewd Sonnets, 1524; comedy La Cortigiana, 1525; satirized powerful contemporaries.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasures, because, of all things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.