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A vituperative satirist who made kings tremble. Also, he wrote this:\nMy fingers are but stragglers at the rear, \nWho go a-foraging for what they find; \nAnd they are not ashamed to lag behind, \nSince there\u2019s no foe in front they need to fear. \nThey\u2019ve wandered through a tufted valley near. \nAnd you yourself have said they were most kind, \nAnd so, I know, my lady will not mind \nIf they see other booty, nor think it queer.\xa0 \nAnd yet, it may be, you prefer the Lance; \nThen, let\xa0your\xa0stragglers reconnoiter, sweet, \nAnd guide him like a blind man to safe cover. \nHe is no coward, since he takes a chance. \nThough he, my dear, has neither eyes nor feet; \nFor a soldier always makes a perfect lover!\n----more----\nSOURCES:\n\nAretino, Pietro. The school of whoredom. London: Hesperus, 2003.\n\xa0\n\u2014\u2014\u2014. The secret life of nuns. London: Hesperus, 2004.\n\xa0\nBurckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Penguin Classics. London, England\u202f; New York, N.Y., USA: Penguin Books, 1990.\n\xa0\nMarrapodi, Michele, ed. Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance: Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition. Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies Series. Farnham, Surrey\u202f; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.\n\xa0\nTalvacchia, Bette. Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1999.\n\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.