Discourses on Livy Machiavelli Niccolo
Discourses on Livy Machiavelli Niccolo Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's…
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Discourses on Livy Machiavelli Niccolo
Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. 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.
[Machiavelli] found in Livy the means to inspire scholars for five centuries. With a substantial introduction, extensive explanatory notes, a glossary of key words, and an annotated index, the Discourses reveals Machiavelli's radical vision of a new science of politics, a vision of new modes and orders that continue to shape the modern ethos. Within the Discourses, often hidden and sometimes unintended by their author, lie the seeds of modern political thought. . . .
[Mansfield and Tarcov's] translation is careful and idiomatic.--Peter Stothard, The