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This article aims to examine the comedy The Mandrake, by Machiavelli, from a phenomenological perspective of the playtext. The article draws upon a contemporary feminist critique of Machiavelli, since this vision is perfectly compatible with the feminine and human agency undeniably represented in the play by means of the action of the character Lucrecia. It argues that opportunity is dramatized as a metaphor of circumstance, which must be confronted with a determined sense of purpose in order to pave the way for the restoration of the polis. It also approaches Machiavelli’s opposition to the Christian view of the world, well established in Renaissance by means of the diffusion of Saint Agostine’s ouvre; this opposition consequently affirms the vision inherent in the Machiavellian thought that human agency, exactly for being limited by contingency, needs to transgress the rigidity of social habits in crucial moments. Key-words: Bodily agency. Fortune. Politics.

A MANDRÁGORA, OU DA FENOMENLOGIA DA OPORTUNIDADE EM MAQUIAVEL