Word: schiaffino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MANDRAGOLA. A cool Renaissance beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) defends her virtue to the next-to-last gasp but turns out to be a good loser in Italian Director Alberto Lattuada's lively version of Machiavelli's comedy...
MANDRAGOLA. Machiavelli's ribald Renaissance classic about a Florentine lady's virtue, directed with plenty of low period humor by Italy's Alberto Lattuada and played as high comedy by Rosanna Schiaffino and a sporty cast...
MANDRAGOLA. Machiavelli's ribald Renaissance classic about a Florentine lady's virtue, directed with plenty of low period humor by Italy's Alberto Lattuada and played as high comedy by Rosanna Schiaffino and a sporty cast...
Mandragola, set in Italy at the close of the quattrocento, uses the stones of Florence to soften up a girl's resistance. As an impregnably virtuous Renaissance lady enduring a crash course in fertility, Rosanna Schiaffino is stretched out in bed with large, warm rocks on her stomach, then is marinated in giant tubfuls of broth, and finally is sealed, screeching, into a body-length hot-water bag to test another old wives' tale. More than 400 years after it was penned by the cynical Renaissance moralist, Niccolo Machiavelli, this ribald comedy classic still looks exuberantly...
Italy's Stefania Sandrelli, 18, is an actress right down to her toes. Her unforgettable game of footsie with a handsome sailor in the closing scenes of Divorce-Italian Style led to her being cast in the sequel, Seduced and Abandoned. Rosanna Schiaffino, 25, whose Lollobridgework went from a small part in La Notte Bravo, to The Victors and The Long Ships, is married to Producer Alfredo Bini. He will have to produce a lot to finance Rosanna. Says she: "I am a very expensive girl. My husband will have to give me a houseful of servants...