La Clizia - Nicolas Machiavelli / Fanélie Viallon

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Machiavelli is not usually seen as a comic author. And yet his colleagues in the chancellery, by their own admission, laughed until their jaws dropped when reading his letters and, in addition to the political texts that made him famous, he wrote short stories and comedies. La Clizia written and performed in 1525 tells a story that has been staged a hundred times: the father and son, both in love with the young and beautiful Clizia.

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