# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pietro-aretino
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:50:18.664Z

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name: "Pietro Aretino"
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description: "He wrote satires so vicious that monarchs and popes paid him to stop. A 16th-century blackmailer with a quill, he turned gossip and scandal into both art and income, shaping reputations across Europe while never quite getting murdered for it."
tagline: "Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer (1492-1556)"
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birthDate: "1492"
deathDate: "1556-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in April 1492, Pietro Aretino climbed out of obscurity through sheer nerve and a gift for demolition — his lampoons could wreck careers, so the powerful bought his silence or his favor. He worked every angle: erotic literature, religious commentary, drama, all of it laced with the kind of bite that made him dangerous. His friendships ran high: Titian painted his portrait three times, and he sparred by letter with Michelangelo over The Last Judgment fresco. He sympathized quietly with Protestant reformers, a Nicodemite in Catholic Venice, and advised rulers while skewering them in print. He died in October 1556, feared and famous, having turned criticism itself into a form of power.