Discourses on Livy

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Niccolo Machiavelli Julia Conaway Bondanella (, Professor of Italian at Indiana University)

Discourses on Livy

Niccolo Machiavelli, Julia Conaway Bondanella (, Professor of Italian at Indiana University), Peter Bondanella (, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University)

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Worlds Classics
11 December 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Political science & theory

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Discourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state.

Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. 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.

His discussion of conspiracies in Discourses on Livy is one of the most sophisticated treatments of archetypal political upheaval every written.

In an age of increasing political absolutism, Machiavelli's theories became a dangerous ideology.

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. The complete Livy in English, available in five volumes from Oxford World's Classics.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. 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.

By: Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by: Julia Conaway Bondanella ( Professor of Italian at Indiana University), Peter Bondanella (, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 317g
ISBN: 9780199555550
ISBN 10: 0199555559
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 11 December 2008
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Discourses on Livy

`...a great author requires a careful translator; and it is befitting for Conaway Bondanella and Bondanella, in presenting a text translated from Italian to English, to assert that Machiavelli has been misunderstood because of poor translations.' Sixteenth Century Journal