A retelling of Niccolò Machiavelli · 1531
Discourses on Livy
“Reading the Roman historian Livy among friends in a Florentine garden, Machiavelli asks why the Roman Republic grew so great and lasted so long, and what modern cities could learn from it about liberty, conflict, religion, war and decay.”
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Contents3 episodes · ~47 min
- 1Book One — The Founding and Ordering of a Free StateFree
- 2Book Two — Rome's Empire and the Arts of Expansion🔒
- 3Book Three — Great Men, Renewal and Decline🔒