num_pages: 448
description: The plays in this volume all represent in some way the sophistication and subtlety of the Renaissance. From Machiavelli's sharp satire on corrupt clergy to Guarini's robust pastoral; from Ariosto's and Aretino's vivid and suggestive portraits of Ferrara and Mantua, which reveal the many themes and relationships of those ducal courts.
language: English
title: Five Italian Renaissance Comedies
titlecomplete: Five Italian Renaissance Comedies (Penguin Classics)
genres: Plays, Drama, Anthologies, Classics, 16th Century, Italian Literature
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Penguin Classics