Poesía y propaganda imperial: Pietro Aretino, Ticiano y Carlos V

Taking as a starting point the presence of poetic texts by Pietro Aretino in the Italian Petrarchists anthologies of Rime and Stanze published in Venice from 1545 (and in parallel in the six books of his Lettere, 1538-1557), almost all of praise or portraits, the work follows the thread of the relationship that the influential polygraph established with Charles V, lavishing himself on a work of propagandist that was decisive when elaborating the image of the Emperor, that would reach its perfection in the portraits made by Titian. The work concludes with some considerations on the inquisitorial censorship that fell on Aretino since 1557 condemning him to the damnatio memoriæ, and on the contrary on his presence in Titian’s La Gloria (1554), the last portrait of Charles V in adoration of the Holy Trinity.