H.D. Greaves

Mandragora

A Ribald and Irreverent Tale

from the Italian Renaissance

 

Add a conniving servant and his amoral master; a murderous priest and his equally homicidal sidekick; a beautiful but barren wife wed to an ancient attorney; and a potion brewed from Mandragora, a plant alleged to help women conceive, and you have a prescription for pandemonium, especially when Mandragora (known in less reputable circles as “God’s Little Joke”), possesses a Fatal Flaw.

 

Filled with bawdy and irreverent wit, outrageous situations, characters it would be grossly unwise to invite for dinner, and lots of good old-fashioned belly laughs, this literate and sophisticated satire is a joy to read from start to satisfying—and most surprising—finale.

 

Based on The Mandrake, notorious Niccolò Machiavelli’s Italian Renaissance comedy, Mandragora is the only novel ever created—even after five centuries!—from his infamous play.

 

ISBN-13: 978-1500142483

 

"Written in the best tradition of Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Voltaire... if you love the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and satire, read this book."

 

 

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