Oxford World's Classics Discourses on Livy, (Paperback)

from mek0901

A fine translation with a good deal of backcround information. Mansfield is a first rate Machiavelli scholar.

from baswood

Titus Livius or Livy {59 BC- AD 17) was the author of A History of Republican Rome originally stretching to 142 books of which only 35 have survived. Machiavelli set out to write a commentary on these gems from antiquity; that were understood by men of the Italian Renaissance to be significant ex...

from jrgoetziii

There is far more depth in this book than in The Prince, and it should be considered by any individual interested in understanding how Republics do and do not function. Though there is some faulty reasoning (usually based on accepting premises that are inaccurate), most of the book is very logica...

from GaryWolf

Considering the social and cultural landscape of the contemporary West, one cannot help but wonder whether we can pull out of our downward slide, and what are the odds of doing so. An interesting analysis of this issue is provided by Machiavelli, in his "Discourses" (1517). In this deeply insight...

from jrgoetziii

There is far more depth in this book than in The Prince, and it should be considered by any individual interested in understanding how Republics do and do not function. Though there is some faulty reasoning (usually based on accepting premises that are inaccurate), most of the book is very logica...