Download or read book The Comedies of Machiavelli written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.