Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

The Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (c. 1517) is regarded as Niccolo Machiavelli's work on republics, presented as a commentary on Titus Livius' first ten books of History of Rome (27-9 BC), which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC.

The reader will find a book regarding political philosophy and history. Machiavelli takes the events reported by Titus Livius as empirical evidences that should be useful as lessons. Generations were influenced by Machiavelli works and the Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius will present the reader with a great knowledge about history and politics. This edition brings the classical and popular translation of the British Ninian Hill Thomson (1883