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...(1469-1527), the renowned Italian statesman, totally disregarded political morality in The Prince, " an analysis of the methods whereby an ambitious man may rise to sovereign power. " 2 Compare The Lady of Lyons, I., iii. (page 390). The yoked steer, after his day of toil, Forgets...

...combined, as usual in his case, with philosophical breadth. In retirement at his villa near Percussina, a hamlet of San Casciano, Machiavelli completed the...some time afterwards. This second treatise is the Discorsi sopra la prima deçà di Tito Livio. Cast in the form of comments on the history of Livy,...

...combined, as usual in his case, with philosophical breadth. In retirement at his villa near Percussma, a hamlet of San Casciano, Machiavelli completed the...Principe before the end of 1513* This famous book is an analysts of the methods whereby an ambitious man may rise to sovereign power. It appears to have grown...

...combined, as usual in his case, with philosophical breadth. In retirement at his villa near Percussma, a hamlet of San Casciano, Machiavelli completed the...another scarcely less celebrated work, upon which Machiavetli had been engaged before he look the Principe in hand, and which he did not finish until...