Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, written in the years after 1513 and published in 1531, is Niccolò Machiavelli's longer and more republican companion to The Prince, here in Ninian Hill Thomson's translation. Taking the first ten books of Livy's history of Rome as his text, Machiavelli asks what made the Roman republic strong and free: the conflict between senate and people, the religion that bound citizens together, the citizen army, the willingness to renew institutions and to punish the powerful. He draws constant comparisons with the Florence and Italy of his own day. The three books cover the internal constitution, the expansion of Roman power, and the conduct of individual citizens and captains. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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