Abstract
Machiavelli published Mandragola to both amuse Renaissance Italian audiences and deliver a biting commentary on current mores. The comedy also contains retorts to his political exile from Florence and an extensive summary of “Machiavellian” rhetorical theory. While dramatically depicting the state of Renaissance rhetoric, Mandragola proposes a classically ideal relationship between wisdom and eloquence.
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