"* Friar Timoteo" . "* Sostrata" . "* A woman" . "The Florentine Republic, 1504" . "* Callimaco" . "1526Z"^^ . . "* Lucrezia" . "* Siro" . "* Ligurio" . "The Mandrake (Italian: La Mandragola) is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance philosopher Niccol\u00F2 Machiavelli. Although the five-act comedy was published in 1524 and first performed in the carnival season of 1526, Machiavelli likely wrote The Mandrake in 1518 as a distraction from his bitterness at having been excluded from the diplomatic and political life of Florence following the 1512 reversion to Medici rule."@en . "The Mandrake"@en . . . . "* Messer Nicia" .