Maquiavelo y la Mandragora: Entonces y Ahora [Machiavelli and the Mandrake: Then and Now] [Abridged Fiction‪]‬

El gran novelista ingles Somerset Maugham uso como base para su picaresca novela
Entonces y ahora, una popular obra de teatro de Maquiavelo, el mismo filosofo de "El príncipe", llamada "La mandragora" y quien creo dentro de las tradiciones de la Comedia del Arte una ironica farsa, en la que los viejos acaban derrotados por el amor joven.

The great English novelist used as the basis for his picaresque novel Then and Now a popular play of Machiavelli's called The Mandrake. He created within the traditions of the art of the modern novel an ironic farce, where the old ones end up being defeated by young love.