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Title: Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Translator: Ninian Hill Thomson
Release date: January 1, 2004 [eBook #10827]
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Language: English
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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
by Niccolo Machiavelli
CITIZEN AND SECRETARY OF FLORENCE
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY
NINIAN HILL THOMSON, M.A.
LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1883
TO PROFESSOR PASQUALE VILLARI.
DEAR PROFESSOR VILLARI,
Permit me to inscribe your name on a translation of Machiavelli's
Discourses which I had your encouragement to undertake, and in which I
have done my best to preserve something of the flavour of the original.
Yours faithfully,
NINIAN H…