Ricerc@Sapienza

Machiavelli’s Belfagor (written in the 1520’s and first published in 1549), a satirical tale about the devil who
takes a bride, enjoyed a circulation of its own in the seventeenth-century, independently of the author ’s political
writings. This article deals with the Dutch translation of this novella, by placing it in the context of popular and
misogynist literature in the Early Modern period, as well as in the context of Dutch seventeenth-century culture