POL200Y1 Lecture 2: Machiavellis-Discourses-on-Levi

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Written about the same time as the prince. Tries to offer us a republic that works and goes beyond working to achieve. He chose the commentary form on levi. He chose this genre of commentary form on newly discovered ancient texts because he wanted to attract readers and then subvert their expectations examples of virtue and ethics. He was pretending to be a humanistic scholar commenting on an ancient text. Titus levius was an ancient roman historian who wrote in latin and his work is the history of rome from the beginning from the sack of troy by the greeks. His work was designed to show what the virtues of ancient rome was. He hoped to save his contemporary roman from falling into decline by giving. Levi(cid:495)s work gave an account of rome(cid:495)s rise to imperial power lessons in levi(cid:495)s work that levi did not mean to communicate. Machiavelli(cid:495)s discourses has 142 chapter like levi had 142 books.

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