Aretino
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Angela pointed out that, now that the service had begun, they weren’t supposed to go down these steps, but Ken insisted—he didn’t want to miss the Spinello Aretino frescoes in the sacristy.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018
Hale describes an evening when Titian dropped in on Aretino who was roasting some thrushes on a spit.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2012
Aretino wrote the beast's Last Will & Testament, assigning Hanno's various organs to those cardinals they most scandalously fitted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Starting as a hill town cobbler's son, Aretino became the most powerful and popular writer in Europe, was perhaps the greatest and certainly the dirtiest master of low vernacular prior to Louis-Ferdinand Celine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles V. and Francis I., who both bid for the friendship of the infamous Aretino, surnamed the divine, both likewise engaged astrologers to fight their battles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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