Word: belfagor
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...achievement comes in his careful appraisal of Machiavelli's lesser-known works - the poems and bawdy plays that provided an outlet for his lascivious imagination and wit. In the play Clizia he mocked the folly of an older man pursuing a younger woman. In the novella The Fable of Belfagor, he speared matrimony by having the protagonist choose the torments of Hell over the anxiety of the "marriage yoke." By examining these lesser-known works and invoking Machiavelli's personal quirks and imperfections, King draws out what the revered philosophical writings mask: Machiavelli's own human nature...
After much competition Miss Margaret Sheridan was selected to create the prima donna role of Candida in Respighi's new opera, Belfagor, which is to be produced in a month at the La Scala house in Milan, Toscanini conducting. Some four years ago Miss Sheridan appeared in Covent Garden, London...
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