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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