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Interview: Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli's Mandragola | The New Thinkery Ep. 76

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The Cuckold and Machiavelli's Mandragola

David: You have written an article, or i guess a book chapter called the cuckold and machiavelli's mandragola. David can tell the folks at home what a cuckold is. And so for fos at home, i'll just confess that i taught the man draggle one of the first times i ever teaching, and only afterwards. But then i turned to your article on it as ia, my godi, all those poor kids, i just completely misled, cause you have a really novel, interesting thesis about what's actually going on in this play. All he has to do is really to pretend to be stupid. Then thet he

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