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The Comedies of Machiavelli : The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia

Atkinson, James B.Machiavelli, NiccoloSices, David(Edited and translated by)
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Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences.

This bilingual edition includes all three examples of Machiavelli's comedic art: sparkling translations of his farcical masterpiece, The Mandrake; of his version of Terence's The Woman From Andros; and of his Plautus-inspired Clizia--works whose genre afforded Machiavelli a unique vehicle not only for entertaining audiences but for examining virtue amid the twists and turns of fortune.

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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
0872209016 / 9780872209015
Paperback / softback
15/09/2007
United States
English
416 pages
139 x 215 mm, 484 grams