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Discourses on Livy
The Discourses on Livy are a work of political theory by Niccolò Machiavelli, written around 1517 and published in 1531. Taking the first ten books of Livy's history of Rome as a starting point, Machiavelli analysed how republics are founded, expanded and preserved, praising mixed government, civic virtue and the conflict between nobles and people. It is a founding text of modern republican thought.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Discourses on Livy. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/discourses-on-livy
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