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by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius Summary
| We should, therefore, be careful how we censure the government of Rome, and should reflect that all the great results effected by that republic, could not have come about without good cause. And if the popular tumults led the creation of the tribunes, they merit all praise; since these magistrates not only gave its due influence to the popular voice in the government, but also acted as the guardians of Roman freedom, as shall be clearly shown in the following Chapter. |
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| The Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius was dedicated to Cosimo Rucellai, the initiator of the Orti group, and to Zanobi Buondelmonti, who participated in the anti-Medicean republican conspiracy of 1522. The Discourses is most significant in terms of its explicit concern, which emerged out of Machiavelli's association with the Orti group, with the politics of republicanism. Although Machiavelli did not himself become directly involved in any of the anti-Medici conspiracies, The Discourses spawned another "Machiavellianism", particularly prominent in England in the 1640s and 1650s, based upon Machiavelli's sometimes explicitly stated preference for republican government over government by princes. |
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