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Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of
Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human.
* The outering or uttering of mind under manuscript
conditions, was, as we have seen, very restricted. The poet or
author was far from being able to use the vernacular as a
public address system. With print the discovery of the
vernacular as a PA system was immediate. The figure of Pietro
Aretino (1492­1556) will serve to illuminate this sudden
development. He also illustrates the sudden reversal of the
private self-accusation, of the confessional, into public
denunciation of others. Aretino was known in his time as “the
scourge of Princes”: