Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

About this film

LibriVox recording of Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1 by Niccolò Machiavelli. (Translated by Ninian Hill Thomson.) Read in English by Pamela Nagami; Dave Gillespie; merendo07; Brad Murphy; Ciufi Galeazzi; Eva Staes; Donavan Olsen; Lucretia B.; jenno; Ann Boulais; Hypatia In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for his present. As the title mentions, the subject of the work is the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita , which cover the expansion of Rome from the legendary monarchy of Romulus to the end of the Third Samnite War (293 BCE). The whole work contains three books, with 142 numbered chapters - perhaps not a coincidence, since Livy's history also contained 142 books. In the first book, the author discusses things that happened inside of Rome as the result of public counsel. - Summary by Leni For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a…

Directors & creators

Niccolò Machiavelli

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Florence; republic; livy

View on archive.org ↗