#machiavelli's clizia

[brother-emperors]

A LOVER IS WORSE THAN EITHER A SINGER OR AN OLD MAN

mille invidie, mille gelosie, mille dispetti lo perturbano etc etc

a conversation between Cleandro and Palamede from Machiavelli's Clizia :) I largely referenced David Sices' translation for this, but I made some changes for overall flow and space. god, I think about this play at least once a week.

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[ghoul-haunted]

An Essay on Machiavelli and Comedy, James B. Atkinson

[bayern-moni]

<<His hair is exceptionally dark, his skin very pale, and his features are pointed and sharp. He’s lean, and his back and shoulders bear the marks of savage torture. In short, my lady, an exact portrait of my own face and body>>

<<Gli occhi vividissimi e la bocca sottile, serrata, parevano sempre un poco ghignare. Di lui più ritratti ci rimangono, di buona fattura, ma soltanto Leonardo, col quale ebbe pur che fare ai suoi prosperi giorni, avrebbe potuto ritradurre in pensiero, col disegno e i colori, quel fine ambiguo sorriso>>

Vedi vedi che magari si scopre di chi era il sorriso della gioconda

[therepublicofletters]

Hi! Love your blog! I was wondering, do you have any fiction book recommendations about Machiavelli? Or any novels where he's a character?

Thank you!!! He appears in Sarah Dunant’s Blood and Beauty and In the Name of the Family, which are about the Borgias! The only thing that I can think are the two plays he wrote, Mandragola and Clizia, the latter of which has a character named Nicomaco and is usually read as a parody of himself. Also not a fiction book but he’s a pretty main character in Da Vinci’s Demons.

[brother-emperors]

HERE LIES POMPEY THE GREAT

Plutarch, Pompey / Ovid's Amores / Machiavelli's Clizia

[brother-emperors]

there are lovers in this story (but the story’s still the same)

shakespeare’s julius caesar / RSC’s 2017 JC production / ovid’s amores / machiavelli’s clizia

[ghoul-haunted]

what if I read Machiavelli's Clizia as a haunted house narrative this time

[ghoul-haunted]

aughhh I wanted to do a short comic of a scene out of machiavelli's clizia because this 6 page thebaid comic is like. well. it's six pages. however this clizia comic is 5 pages, so clearly something went wrong in the planning stage.