The Comedy of Karimaco and Lucrezia

Japanese: 《カリーマコとルクレーツィアの喜劇》 - かりーまことるくれーつぃあのきげき
The Comedy of Karimaco and Lucrezia

…He is known as the thinker who wrote The Prince, but he also wrote one novel and two plays. As the original title of Mandragora suggests, the story of a young man named Carimaco trying to get a beautiful woman (who is married) by any means possible, and depicts the evil that dominated the secular life of 16th-century Florence. It is said to have been written in 1519, and has since become one of the most frequently performed Renaissance comedies. …

*Some of the terminology used in "The Comedy of Carimaco and Lucrezia" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…彼は《君主論》を書いた思想家として知られるが,1編の小説と2編の戯曲作品を残した。《マンドラゴラ》は,原題が《カリーマコとルクレーツィアの喜劇》であったことでもわかるように,カリーマコという青年が美貌の女性(ただし人妻)をあらゆる手段を使って手に入れようとする話であり,16世紀フィレンツェの世俗的生活を支配していた悪が描き出されている。1519年に書かれたとされているが,以来もっともよく上演されてきたルネサンス喜劇の一つである。…

※「《カリーマコとルクレーツィアの喜劇》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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