Machiavelli and Livy
Niccolò Machiavelli's work on republics, the Discourses on Livy, is presented as a commentary on the History of Rome.
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“States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)