The Comedies of Machiavelli
Machiavelli, Niccolo / Atkinson, James B.
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 Pl...