Discourses on Livy

Name: Discourses on Livy
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ISBN: 9780199555550

ISBN-10: 0199555559

ISBN-13: 9780199555550

Edition: 2008

Authors: Niccolo Machiavelli, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella

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IDiscourses 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 healthybody 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…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.60" wide x 5.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English