Discourses on Livy (Annotated)

In Discourses on Livy, Niccolò Machiavelli turns from princely rule to republican freedom, using the first ten books of Livy's history of Rome as the framework for a searching inquiry into laws, institutions, civic virtue, religion, military organization, and political corruption. Written in a lucid, aphoristic, and argumentative Renaissance prose, the work belongs to the humanist tradition of rea...