Pasquinade

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A pasquinade or pasquil is a form of satire, usually an anonymous brief lampoon in verse or prose, and can also be seen as a form of literary caricature. The genre became popular in early modern Europe, in the 16th century,. Pasquinades can take a number of literary forms, including song, epigram, and satire.

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