But even while he lamented his fate, and continued to angle for Medici favor, he went on writing, almost feverishly, and in a variety of forms. “‘After everything was lost’ is the way that Machiavelli referred to the years after he emerged from prison, failed to regain his job, and languished outside the halls of power. Thick 12mo (3-1/2 by 6 inches), contemporary full brown tooled speckled calf rebacked and recornered in speckled calf-gilt, red morocco spine label.įirst edition in English of Machiavelli’s commentaries on the work of the Roman historian Livy, a founding document of modern republicanism, read and quoted by John Adams in his great work, The Defence of the Constitutions, scarce in contemporary calf boards. London: Printed by Thomas Paine for William Hills and Daniel Pakeman, 1636. Livius translated out of the Italian With some marginall animadversions noting and taxing his errours. “ANYONE WHO STUDIED PRESENT AND ANCIENT AFFAIRS WILL EASILY SEE HOW IN ALL CITIES AND ALL PEOPLES THERE STILL EXIST, AND HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED, THE SAME DESIRES AND PASSIONS”: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF MACHIAVELLI’S DISCOURSES ON LIVY, 1636
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