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Machiavelli, Niccolo - Discourses on Livy. Translated by Ninian Hill Thomson

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Dover Publications, Inc. 2007. Paperback. Pp: 368. 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. 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 political body was characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability. His discussion of conspiracies inDiscourses on Livy is one of the most sophisticated treatments of archetypal political upheaval ever 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. ISBN: 9780486461892. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
EUR 8.50 [Appr.: US$ 9.06 | £UK 7.5 | JP¥ 1430] Book number 1981190

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