The Stablemaster In Antonio Manetti's The Fat Woodworker

The Stablemaster and Its Comparison to other Literary Works Classic Italian literature within the Renaissance has often included a central idea embodied within a well thought out and biting prank to serve some form of justice or provide entertainment. Also, the common incidence of mimicry in the sixteenth century’s literal works produced large numbers of similar characters, plots, conflicts, and resolutions. The jokes within these literary works often employed the assistance of characters that found themselves encompassed within the prank during their daily lives. These individuals were swayed into aiding the joke by Fortune herself, whether aware of the trick or not. For example, Pietro Aretino’s play, The Stablemaster, was one of the most intriguing, well known, and detail oriented works that focused on the central idea of a prank, carried out to perfection because of the trick’s guidance by Fortune through Aretino’s use of imagery and satire in dialogue. The author Pietro Aretino was born in Arezzo, Italy in 1492 to a common family, and he received

For example, the same ideology of the prank in The Stablemaster is present in Antonio Manetti’s The Fat Woodworker. In the same way that the Duke’s subjects go along unwittingly with the prank as a form of obedience in desperate hopes of reward, the Judge in The Fat Woodworker is later rewarded for his part in the prank by being given admittance into the club of tricksters. This form of blind obedience is common throughout Italian Renaissance literature. On the contrary, the two works differ in the fact that The Stablemaster’s prank in carried out by one conspirator through the obedience of his subjects, and The Fat Woodworker’s prank consists of a group of pranksters working together because of a common