Deceiving Disability
The Blind Man and the Boiteux in Machiavelli's Mandragola
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10613610 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aria Dal Molin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-64 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mln.2019.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2940684028 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article shows Machiavelli as a modern and a medieval thinker by unearthing the reworking of the medieval topos of L'Aveugle et le Boiteux in the Renaissance comedy the Madragola. The Blind Man and the Boiteux who, in symbiotic union, form one complete beggar received several treatments in the dramatic arts, reaching its culmination in 1496 in André de la Vigne's Moralité de l'Aveugle et du Boiteux. Woven into this commedia erudita is a long-standing medieval tradition of using disability as a narrative trope with symbolic connotations that ultimately implicate a striking Renaissance rendering of a miracle play
Art · Art history · Literature · Miracle · Narrative · The Renaissance · Theology · Topos theory · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Emotions Research · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Women and gender in early modern Europe
The Family in Italy from antiquity to the present
Perilous Chastity
Ritual in Early Modern Europe
Recueil de farces (1450-1550)
Machiavelli in Love
Cultural Locations of Disability
Theater and Its Social Uses
The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli
Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings
The Master Fool
| Highly cited | No |
|---|