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.
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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.
The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism to one of the major philosophical and political issues of his time, especially the relationship between public deeds and private morality.
Harvey Mansfield Jr. Translation
Collected works of Niccolo Machiavelli by Delphi Classics. Enjoy reading!
This Tim Parks's translation is quite good. Recommended for easy reading.
This translation is well recommended. It has excellent notes.