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Cover of Discourses on Livy

Niccolò Machiavelli · 1531

Discourses on Livy

4.08Goodreads

About 13 hr read

551 pages

Classics Nonfiction Philosophy

Machiavelli's republican work studies Rome to think about liberty, corruption, citizen arms, institutions, conflict, and political renewal.

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