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The famous poet Italian Pietro Aretino in 1521 published at the opportunity of the conclave, which elected the Dutch pope Hadrian (Adriano VI.), the "Pasquinate del conclave".
http://books.google.com/books?id=Lu...ig=uDGqc1O2IIJT0apG5tZF9GVgbCY&hl=en#PPA35,M1
The "Pasquinate del conclave" related ... as my sources indicate ... the electing cardinals to the Trionfi card or Tarot motifs. I would like to take a look at the text, but I found in the web only rather short descriptions.
It's said, that the Pasquinate del conclave was first published in 1891 by Vittorio Rossi in "Pasquinate di Pietro Arentino ed anonime per il conclave e l'elezione die Adriano VI".
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Worthful to know in this context:
The "Pasquino" is a fragmentarious Roman statue, found and erected in Rome in the year 1501 by Cardinal Oliviero Carafa at St. Mark's day, 25th of April. The result was an annual ceronomy. "The marble torso was draped in a toga, and epigrams in Latin were attached to it."
"The decorous event quickly got out of hand when it became the custom for those who wanted to criticize the pope or individuals in his government—for a pasquinade is first and foremost a personal attack— to write satirical poems in broad Roman dialect (called "pasquinades" from the Italian "pasquinate") and attach them to this statue.
Thus Pasquino became the first talking statue of Rome. He spoke out about the people's dissatisfaction, he denounced injustice, and he assaulted misgovernment by members of the Church."
These customs seem to have been started around 1509.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasquinade
Other talking statues became 5 figures "called Marphurius, Abbot Luigi, Il Facchino, Madame Lucrezia, I Babbuino", all can be studied by Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marphurius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Lucrezia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Facchino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Babbuino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_Luigi
all are collected here:
http://www.romeartlover.it/Talking.html
"These poems were collected and published annually by the Roman printer Giacomo Mazzocchi as early as 1509, as Carmina apposita Pasquino and thus became well known all over Europe."
In about 1512/13 the papal protonotary Johannes Goeritz started a counter operation with a second annual poetry feast at 26th of July.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+rise+and+fall+of+Goritz's+feasts-a016871171
In 1516 the poet Pietro Aretino, author, playwright, poet, and socalled "inventor of modern literate pornography" after spending some time in Perugia, reached Rome and got some attention for his poem ""The Last Will and Testament of the Elephant Hanno" (Hanno had been the pet of pope Leo and died in 1516). The banker Agostino Chigi, called then "indisputably the richest man in Rome", became his patron.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Chigi
However, Chigi died 1520 and Pope Leo, another sponsor, died, too, in December 1521.
The troublesome situation of the development of the reformation in Germany caused the choice of an unloved Dutch candidat of compromise between two conflicting parties, the former teacher of the emperor Charles V., who even wasn't present at the conclave (and it took 3/4 of a year before he arrived in Rome after his election).
When he arrived, nobody loved him ... and he turned against many abuses durung the reignment of the former pope Leo, abuses, which had favoured the sodalities of the poets. The natural result of the situation was a bad public reaction for the new pope and possibly reason for his early death one year later. "Most of his official papers were lost after his death." "The Romans, who had never taken a liking to a man they saw as a barbarian, rejoiced at his death, declaring that a statue ought to be erected to his doctor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Adrian_VI
During this situation Aretino wrote his Pasquinate del conclave. It's said, that he had to leave Rome for it and it's also said, that it had become as a document of high value for the history of the Christian religion. For Aretino, he followed Giovanni della bande nere, the leading condottiero of the time.
In 1522 Giovanni della bande nere was successful to free the city of Milan of French dominion. He died in the battle of Pavia.
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In Aretino's later career as a playwright the figure of the Pasquino appeared on the stage in the decoration. Aretino himself personified as "Il pasquino" ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=pP...ig=6gqRyMM-_RNCWw9gpSkEQJv8PT0&hl=en#PPA19,M1
http://books.google.com/books?id=Lu...ig=uDGqc1O2IIJT0apG5tZF9GVgbCY&hl=en#PPA35,M1
The "Pasquinate del conclave" related ... as my sources indicate ... the electing cardinals to the Trionfi card or Tarot motifs. I would like to take a look at the text, but I found in the web only rather short descriptions.
It's said, that the Pasquinate del conclave was first published in 1891 by Vittorio Rossi in "Pasquinate di Pietro Arentino ed anonime per il conclave e l'elezione die Adriano VI".
**********
Worthful to know in this context:
The "Pasquino" is a fragmentarious Roman statue, found and erected in Rome in the year 1501 by Cardinal Oliviero Carafa at St. Mark's day, 25th of April. The result was an annual ceronomy. "The marble torso was draped in a toga, and epigrams in Latin were attached to it."
"The decorous event quickly got out of hand when it became the custom for those who wanted to criticize the pope or individuals in his government—for a pasquinade is first and foremost a personal attack— to write satirical poems in broad Roman dialect (called "pasquinades" from the Italian "pasquinate") and attach them to this statue.
Thus Pasquino became the first talking statue of Rome. He spoke out about the people's dissatisfaction, he denounced injustice, and he assaulted misgovernment by members of the Church."
These customs seem to have been started around 1509.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasquinade
Other talking statues became 5 figures "called Marphurius, Abbot Luigi, Il Facchino, Madame Lucrezia, I Babbuino", all can be studied by Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marphurius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Lucrezia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Facchino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Babbuino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_Luigi
all are collected here:
http://www.romeartlover.it/Talking.html
"These poems were collected and published annually by the Roman printer Giacomo Mazzocchi as early as 1509, as Carmina apposita Pasquino and thus became well known all over Europe."
In about 1512/13 the papal protonotary Johannes Goeritz started a counter operation with a second annual poetry feast at 26th of July.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+rise+and+fall+of+Goritz's+feasts-a016871171
In 1516 the poet Pietro Aretino, author, playwright, poet, and socalled "inventor of modern literate pornography" after spending some time in Perugia, reached Rome and got some attention for his poem ""The Last Will and Testament of the Elephant Hanno" (Hanno had been the pet of pope Leo and died in 1516). The banker Agostino Chigi, called then "indisputably the richest man in Rome", became his patron.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Chigi
However, Chigi died 1520 and Pope Leo, another sponsor, died, too, in December 1521.
The troublesome situation of the development of the reformation in Germany caused the choice of an unloved Dutch candidat of compromise between two conflicting parties, the former teacher of the emperor Charles V., who even wasn't present at the conclave (and it took 3/4 of a year before he arrived in Rome after his election).
When he arrived, nobody loved him ... and he turned against many abuses durung the reignment of the former pope Leo, abuses, which had favoured the sodalities of the poets. The natural result of the situation was a bad public reaction for the new pope and possibly reason for his early death one year later. "Most of his official papers were lost after his death." "The Romans, who had never taken a liking to a man they saw as a barbarian, rejoiced at his death, declaring that a statue ought to be erected to his doctor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Adrian_VI
During this situation Aretino wrote his Pasquinate del conclave. It's said, that he had to leave Rome for it and it's also said, that it had become as a document of high value for the history of the Christian religion. For Aretino, he followed Giovanni della bande nere, the leading condottiero of the time.
In 1522 Giovanni della bande nere was successful to free the city of Milan of French dominion. He died in the battle of Pavia.
****
In Aretino's later career as a playwright the figure of the Pasquino appeared on the stage in the decoration. Aretino himself personified as "Il pasquino" ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=pP...ig=6gqRyMM-_RNCWw9gpSkEQJv8PT0&hl=en#PPA19,M1