![]() ![]() This new translation is richly annotated, providing the contemporary reader with sufficient historical, linguistic, and political information to understand and interpret the revolutionary affirmations Machiavelli made, based on the historical evidence he found in Livy. A Deconstruction of The Discourses on Livy: a biography of Niccolo Machiavelli and his Political. Machiavelli's theories became a dangerous ideology. In an age of increasing political absolutism, His discussion of conspiracies in Discourses on Livy is one of the most sophisticated treatments of archetypal political upheaval every written. Machiavelli's close analysis of Livy's history of Rome led him to advance his most original and outspoken view of politics - the belief that a healthyīody politic was characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli’s idiom and subtlety of thought, it is eminently readable. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state.Ĭomparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. ![]() ![]() IDiscourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. ![]()
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