The anti-papal tone of the renaissance and baroque
pasquinade is here subverted by a satirical image targeting a supposedly 'secular' form of authority (the American presidency), which has, through its use of crusading language, appropriated the moral authority of the catholic church, while ignoring the Pope's own opposition to war in Iraq.
After the 16th century the vogue of posting
pasquinades died out, and the term acquired its more general meaning.
The poem suffered a series of name changes: she calls it "The Beast" in 1965, "Tom Fool" later that year, and it becomes an "item" in her "
pasquinade" period in 1968.
The 1525 comedy still has the qualities that define a
pasquinade. It offers the audience the opportunity to participate in the pleasure of immediate recognition or comprehension, most especially in the prologue when the First Histrion taunts the public with a harangue that is both insulting and titillating.
She also situates his satirical works in relation to the genre of
pasquinades, witty sayings and poems lampooning mostly prominent figures in the Roman Curia that since the early sixteenth century were customarily displayed on a certain particular in Rome ("Petrus Aretinus acerrimus virtutum ac vitiorum demonstrator').
The often-hostile reception of Urban VIII was exemplified in the
Pasquinades and propaganda against him despite his great patronage of the arts and in part because of his nepotism and much-criticized conduct in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).
D'une part, l'essor de la variante juvenalienne a ce moment precis s'inspire sans doute des
pasquinades et capitoli bernesques italiens, mettant en scene un << rire d'origine carnavalesque >> a fort << sousentendu scabreux (17).
Especially innovative are the chapters, "The City," on the transmission of information in Venice, and "Communicative Transactions," which compares different forms of communication, from official publications to the political gossip in barbershops and pharmacies and the posting of anonymous
pasquinades.
and the other a statement from Crocker's New Whig Guide: 'Political
Pasquinades and Political Caricatures are parts (though humble ones) of Political history.
Later identified as Menelaus with the Body of Patroclus, this was probably unearthed midway through the fifteenth century; it acquired the name Pasquino early in the sixteenth when Roman citizens began literally attaching satiric verses or "
pasquinades" to it.
The literal "blissful obliteration" in marriage on Purilia is the culmination of Rice's witty
pasquinades upon Hollywood's simultaneous representation and suppression of human sexuality (the Purilians have no genitals).
The
pasquinades characteristic satirical verses displayed on the ancient statue in Rome called `Pasquino') marking Leo's death in 1521 gave particular attention to his love of music, not as a praiseworthy characteristic but as a stick with which to beat him; one had the burden, `Mourn, musicians of Rome!
