Discourses on Livy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Niccolo Machiavelli, Alissa Ardito (Introduction)

Overview

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Niccolò Machiavelli warns potential revolutionaries to expel the privileged elites of the old regime or risk certain doom. In the Discourses, he applied himself to the enduring problems of popular government, struggling to devise ways government by the people might survive in the modern world and how the transition from monarchy to republic might be managed. Political leaders, activists, and revolutionaries-from Charles V to Antonio Gramsci to Thomas Jefferson-have taken heed of the Discourses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411467798
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	502,913
File size:	672 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence in 1469. At twenty-nine years old, he entered government service in the city-state of Florence as Second Chancellor, a senior post, with responsibilities for relations between Florence and its subject territories in Tuscany and more broadly for foreign affairs. Along with various treatises, plays, and poems, he wrote The Prince (1513), the Discourses (c.1514-1519), the Art of War (1521), and the Florentine Histories (1520-1525). He died in 1527.