Word: mandragola
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses), his own broad humor (Mandragola...
Last week, in Manhattan, the Little Opera of America, Inc., presented an Opera Comique, Mandragola. Those who attended were familiar with the Little Opera's contention that the U. S. public will pay to see productions which have the music of grand opera without the latter's grandeur, the charm of musical comedy without its undue levity...
...evidence that his young and beautiful wife, Beatrice, cannot become a mother without miraculous ministration, therapeutic aid or both. Now Beatrice is loved by an amorous nobleman, also young, who disguises himself as a doctor and comes, at her husband's request, to treat her with Mandragola, a root whose properties, the noble leech insists, will permit the aged merchant to realize his ambition, at least to all appearances. Thus the old man soon rejoices in the promise of an heir, and the young couple is also very well content...