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Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics. Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with... Read Full Overview

"It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community"

Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state.
Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries... Read Full Overview

Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's idiom and subtlety... Read Full Overview

The Discourses on Livy is a work of political history and philosophy composed in the early 16th century by the famed Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccol? Machiavelli (1469-1527), best known as the author of The Prince . Where The Prince is devoted to advising... Read Full Overview

The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy") is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (ca. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccol?... Read Full Overview

The Discourses is a work of political history and philosophy. The work is an analysis of the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which describe the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BCE. Machiavelli also discusses what can be learned... Read Full Overview

Discourses on Livy (1531) by Niccol? Machiavelli The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy") is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (ca. 1517) by... Read Full Overview

Los Discursos intentan explicar la estructura y los beneficios del gobierno republicano, una forma de gobierno fundada en el consenso y control popular. Dedic este trabajo a Zanobi Buondelmonti y Cosimo Rucellai, dos de los mejores exponentes del Orti Oricellari o Academia plat... Read Full Overview

"Discourses on Livy", which was first published posthumously in 1531, is Niccolo Machiavelli's analysis of the first ten books of Livy's monumental work of Roman History, which details the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Machiavelli believed... Read Full Overview

Los Discursos sobre la Primera d cada de Tito Livio, en italiano original Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, son un trabajo de historia pol tica y filos fica escrito al inicio del siglo XVI por el italiano Nicol s Maquiavelo, m s conocido como autor de El Principe.

The Discourses is a work of political history and philosophy. The work is an analysis of the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which describe the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BCE. Machiavelli also discusses what can be learned... Read Full Overview

The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy") is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (ca. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccol?... Read Full Overview

"Discourses on Livy" is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccol? Machiavelli, best known as the author of The Prince. The Discourses were published posthumously with papal privilege in 1531.The... Read Full Overview

Albeit the jealous temper of mankind, ever more disposed to censure than to praise the work of others, has constantly made the pursuit of new methods and systems no less perilous than the search after unknown lands and seas; nevertheless, prompted by that desire which nature... Read Full Overview

The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy") is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (ca. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccol... Read Full Overview

Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility. His life falls naturally into three periods,... Read Full Overview

Albeit the jealous temper of mankind, ever more disposed to censure than to praise the work of others, has constantly made the pursuit of new methods and systems no less perilous than the search after unknown lands and seas; nevertheless, prompted by that desire which nature... Read Full Overview