Talk:The Mandrake

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I've changed date that this play was written to 1518 (date given in chronology of the Penguin Classics edition of the Prince), but I don't know when it was first printed. According to my source it was performed in Venice in 1525, but Machiavelli was revising it again by 1526. Can anyone verify that 1524 was the date it was first printed? --SoniaUK 23:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Machiavelli didn't actually plot against the medici. he was just accused of doing so, then some years later he was allowed back by the medici. I'm a languages and literatures student in the Gabriele D'Annunzio University, Pescara, Italy. --87.6.180.228 16:05, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Dramatizes the principles from the Prince?!
Written between 1504 and 1518 and first performed in 1518, the play dramatizes the principles from The Prince; Callimaco is La Mandragola's prince, his actions are in the pursuit of happiness at the expense of others...

Anyone who can write this hasn't read The Prince. Firstly, he says in both The Prince and The Discourses that a sure way for a prince to get in serious trouble is to mess with the property or women of his subjects, which he supports with numerous examples such as Virginia and the Decemvirs, the suicide of Lucretia and the end of the Tarquin dynasty, and the assassination of Philip of Macedon. Secondly, there is nothing in Macchiavelli that espouses pursuit of happiness at the expense of others as a principle to be followed by princes. Rather, the principle is that the welfare of a state is sometimes better served by immoral actions. Shrikeangel (talk) 05:23, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I've deleted all of the Original Research. Softlavender (talk) 04:26, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

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