Sex and Marriage in Machiavelli’s Mandragola: A Close(t) Reading

By Konrad Eisenbichler

This article carries out a close reading of Niccolò Machiavelli’s play Mandragola (The mandrake root) from the perspective of sex and gender studies. In so doing, it takes into consideration what the play says or suggests about sexual desire, sexual…

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