La Mandragola circulates as a printed cynical comedy of fraud and bed-trick
Dated 1 January 1524: La Mandragola circulates as a printed cynical comedy of fraud and bed-trick. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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Context
A play can teach fraud as cleverness. That is a dignity harm in representation, not a census of assaults. Keep confidence medium.
Niccolò Machiavelli is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Comic coercion of a wife’s body is a rights-facing cultural harm, bounded and complex.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Niccolo Machiavelli
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.2 · verified
Florentine secretary and writer as documented. Printers, censors, and later rulers reuse the name.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLa Mandragola circulates as a printed cynical comedy of fraud and bed-trick
- weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1524 · verified
Comic coercion of a wife’s body is a rights-facing cultural harm, bounded and complex.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.La Mandragola — Internet ArchiveInternet Archive · High credibility · verified
- 2.Treccani — Niccolò MachiavelliIstituto della Enciclopedia Italiana · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
La Mandragola, Machiavelli’s comedy of a staged infertility fraud used to coerce a woman into adultery, was in circulation in the 1520s as performance and print.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorNiccolo Machiavelli
- contributed toFactLa Mandragola circulates as a printed cynical comedy of fraud and bed-trick
- weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). La Mandragola circulates as a printed cynical comedy of fraud and bed-trick. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-mandragola-print
https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-mandragola-print
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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