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Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise "The Prince" made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, "The Discourses" (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of... read more
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Book One deals with 'such events due to public decrees' as the author judges to be worthy of comment, and with their consequences....It treats of the constitutional development which took place in Rome from the time of the kings down to the year 387 B.C..
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- Niccolo Machiavelli (Author)
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