By Niccolò Machiavelli
Even though larger recognized this present day as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his repute as an immense within the historical past of Italian comedy greater than fifty years sooner than Shakespeare's comedies extremely joyful English-speaking audiences. This bilingual version comprises all 3 examples of Machiavelli's comedic artwork: gleaming translations of his farcical masterpiece, The Mandrake; of his model of Terence's the girl From Andros; and of his Plautus-inspired Clizia--works whose style afforded Machiavelli a distinct automobile not just for enjoyable audiences yet for reading advantage amid the twists and turns of fortune.
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S I M O : Va' innanzi; io ne verrb. SOSIA: SIMO: SCENA SECONDA Simo, Davo. S I M O : Sanza dubbio il mi0 figliuolo non vorrA moglie, in mod0 ho sentito temere Davo, poi ch'egli intese di queste nozze. . Ma egli esce fuora. D A V O : lo mi maravigliavo bene che la cosa procedessi cost, e sempre ho dubitato del fine che avessi avere questa urnanit&del mio patrone; il quale, poi ch'egli intese che Cremete non voleva dare moglie a1 suo figliuolo, non ha detto ad alcuno una parola e non ha mostro d'averlo per male.
The basic text is the one established by Mario Martelli, "La Versione Machiavellians dell'Andria," published first in Rinascimento, second series, 8 (1968) : 203-274, and subsequently reprinted in his Nicco/6 Machiavelli: Tutte le Opere (Florence: Sansoni, 197 I), pp. 847867. I follow the modifications in Martelli's text made by Guido Davico Bonino in his edition of Machiavelli, Teatro (Turin: Einaudi, 1979), pp. 5-61. James B. Atkinson TRANSLATOR'S N O T E O N T H E M A N D R A K E AND C L I Z I A This translation of Machiavelli's Mandrake was written in the winter of 1976, when Professor Errol G .
S I M O : Tu il saprai. , io veggo una fanciulletta d'una forma . . SOSIA: Buona, per awentura! SIMO:. . e d'un volto, o Sosia, in mod0 modesto e in mod0 grazioso, che non si potrebbe dire piu, la quale mi pareva che si dolessi piu che l'altre. E perch6 la era piu che l'altre di forma bella e liberale, m'accostai a quelle che le erano intorno, e domandai chi la fussi. Risposono essere sorella di Criside. Di fatto, io mi senti' raviluppare l'animo: ha! ha! questo 6 quello! di qui nascevono quelle lacrime!