Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature. Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli, eds. Machiavelli and Republicanism by Bock, Skinner, and Viroli.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 'Niccolò Machiavelli.' In History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1965 (3 vols.) Recommended Translation: The Chief Works and Others, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.- Recommended Translation: Discourses on Livy, trans. The complete Livy in English, available in five volumes from Oxford World's Classics.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. This new translation is richly annotated, providing the contemporary reader with sufficient historical, linguistic, and political information to understand and interpret the revolutionary affirmations Machiavelli made, based on the historical evidence he found in Livy. In an age of increasing political absolutism, Machiavelli's theories became a dangerous ideology. His discussion of conspiracies in Discourses on Livy is one of the most sophisticated treatments of archetypal political upheaval every written. 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 characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state.Ĭomparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works.

Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Healthĭiscourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince.

The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

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