Mandragola - Niccolò Machiavelli

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