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

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The Comedies of Machiavelli: The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia - Machiavelli, Niccolo, and Sices, David, Professor (Translated by), and Atkinson, James B
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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 ...

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The Comedies of Machiavelli: The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia 2007, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, IN

ISBN-13: 9780872209015

Italian

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