The Mandrake
Written while Machiavelli was in exile for allegedly plotting against the Medici clan, The Mandrake or Mandragola details the corruption of Italian society in a series of increasingly comical scenes that culminate in the cuckolding of a powerful Florentine aristocrat. The author depicts human nature just as he has come to know it, and the sinister fruits of his studies have delighted audiences to this day, for we recognize our own failures in Machiavelli's creations--characters too quick to compromise personal ethics in order to accommodate a corrupt and demeaning world, too easily persuaded to lie, cheat, swindle, and deceive, or close their…
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Weitere Autoren: Wykes, Walter
- ISBN: 978-0-557-67744-3
- EAN: 9780557677443
- Produktnummer: 10721123
- Verlag: Lulu.com
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D0.9 cm 139 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 139
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