viewing history as a source of cumulative analysis for the present, provided that past works are preserved.

Contents

Discourses on Livy has a dedicatory letter and, across 142 chapters, three books, the first two with (unnumbered) prefaces. Not unlike other numerological curiosities in Machiavelli's texts, this mirrors the 142 books and introduction in Livy's History.

Outlining Discourses at the end of the first chapter, Machiavelli categorizes Roman counsels as public and private on

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