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And one more post: today's discovery, from a book about military nobility in Renaissance Italy, about a way I hadn't heard of for one to impugn another's honor (as honor was a huge thing):

A year later, an argument about a horse taken from an envoy Virginio had sent to the enemy commander, Roberto da Sanseverino, resulted in Roberto’s son, Antonio Maria, challenging Virginio, threatening that if he had not received a response within four days, he would have defamatory paintings of him displayed in the ‘shameful areas’ of his camp and in Rome.

From Barons and Castellans : The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy by Christine Shaw, which I'd buy for myself in paper so I could mark up if it wasn't HUGELY EXPENSIVE and thus I must resort to merely reading the ebook in a browser window via my institution.

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I am now envisioning some poor painter being commissioned to do a painting of a mercenary captain buggering a goat. That seems to have some potential for blowback.

Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was an Italian satirist who would occasionally write to people being like, "oh, hahaha, remember that embarrassing thing that happened to you? I find myself short of funds and was thinking about writing about it, let me know if you want to pay me to not instead."