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Pietro Aretino

Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer

b. 1492 CE – d. 1556 CE World The Middle of The Earth

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