Mandragola

A foolish husband, a beautiful and faithful wife, a lovestruck young man and… a magical yet deadly plant: the mandrake! With these key ingredients Machiavelli constructs an entertaining story in which everyone is searching for happiness… to the detriment of somebody else! A comic tale and masterpiece of sixteenth-century Italian literature.

Themes: society, love, family Possessive adjectives – Comparatives – Adverbs (manner) – 'Dopo che' + indicative and 'Dopo' + past infinitve – Idiomatic expressions – Simple future tense of regular and irregular verbs – Present perfect – Imperfect – 'Mentre' + verb and 'Durante' + noun – Words with double meaning – Prepositions