In one scene, this man says goodbye to his best friend by paying three coins, which he owes from a feast for which the friend had the gall to charge his guests. This man's father survives an outbreak of plague when his mother covers him in cornmeal porridge. This man becomes enamored of a French girl named Angélique, who commits suicide after he unlocks the memories that precede her conversion into a human memory palace by a Turkish pasha. His childhood friendship with Ago Vespucci and Nino (*) Argalia is fictionalized in a Salman Rushdie novel. In real life, this man wrote a work in which the marriage-broker Ligurio is involved in a scheme surrounding a potion that will purportedly impregnate a woman but kill the first man who has sex with her. Callimaco's trickery allows him to sleep with Lucrezia in that play by him, named for the plant used to make the potion. For 10 points, name th
In one scene, this man says goodbye to his best friend by paying three coins, which he owes from a feast for which the friend had the gall to charge his guests. This man's father survives an outbreak of plague when his mother covers him in cornmeal porridge. This man becomes enamored of a French girl named Angélique, who commits suicide after he unlocks the memories that precede her conversion into a human memory palace by a Turkish pasha. His childhood friendship with Ago Vespucci and Nino (*) Argalia is fictionalized in a Salman Rushdie novel. In real life, this man wrote a work in which the marriage-broker Ligurio is involved in a scheme surrounding a potion that will purportedly impregnate a woman but kill the first man who has sex with her. Callimaco's trickery allows him to sleep with Lucrezia in that play by him, named for the plant used to make the potion. For 10 points, name this Florentine author of The Mandrake.
In one scene, this man says goodbye to his best friend by paying three coins, which he owes from a feast for which the friend had the gall to charge his guests.
Niccolo Machiavelli