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La Puttana Errante (c.1650-60) is the title of two anonymously published works from the 17th century, formerly attributed to Aretino.
The oldest is a poem and the second a prose dialogue. Alcide Bonneau calls the poem a "parodie bouffonne des romans de chevalerie" and atributes it to Lorenzo Veniero, le meilleur disciple de l'Arétin, est plus ancien que le Dialogue."
The prose work, again according to Bonneau, "qui porte le même titre, par supercherie, est très inférieur au poème en mérite littéraire, mais il est beaucoup plus connu."
Like many "whore dialogues" in the seventeenth century, it was inspired by Pietro Aretino's earlier sonnets. It was translated into many European languages and its title was appropriated for a short-lived British periodical called The Wandering Whore.
Its bibliographic source is David Foxon's Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745 (1965).
Pages 63 and 64 of Walter Kendrick's Secret Museum have some background info.
