world and places it against the light of the sun. . . . All is 
     obscene and libidinous, everything is for sale, everything 
     is false, nothing is sacred. He himself makes merchandise 
     of sacred things to gain money and writes romantic lives 
     of the saints. And then? Like Nanna, like Pippa, he finds it 
     convenient to stand above men and hold them with the 
     reins of their own vices. . . . The discipline which Nanna 
     gives to Pippa is the discipline which guided the life of 
     Aretino.” (68)

Marlowe anticipated Whitman’s barbaric yawp by setting up a 
national PA system of blank verse—a rising iambic system of 
sound to suit the new success story.

*      It is necessary to keep in mind that print created 
gigantism not only for the author and for the vernaculars, but