«Pur che il Signore abbia di me piacere». Il Marescalco dell’Aretino come anticommedia imperfetta

This essays deals with Aretino’s Marescalco, an ambitious work of
art in which, by means of a fierce attack on the literary sources, the
writer undermines the general principles connected to the court.
The text is a vitriolic parody of the Renaissance comedy, of the treatises
concerning social behaviour, and of those about love written in
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Nevertheless, while expressing
the unrest of the time, it does not succeed in getting rid of the
logic of the court. Aretino, in fact, proves to be unable to carry out
decisive elements of discontinuity.