Discourses on Livy - Niccolo Machiavelli

Discourses on Livy 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 body politic was characterised by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability.

Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448