
Discourses on Livy
Translation by Julia Conaway Bondanella / Translation by Peter Bondanella
Peter E. Bondanella(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. March 2003
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446 pages
978-0-19-280473-0 (ISBN)
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"Discourses on Livy" (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 provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. 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 healthy body politic was characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability. His discussion of conspiracies in "Discourses on Livy" is one of the most sophisticated treatments of archetypal political upheaval every written. In an age of increasing political absolutism, Machiavelli's theories became a dangerous ideology. 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.
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
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978-0-19-280473-0 (9780192804730)
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Discourses on Livy
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