Discursos sobre la primera dècada de Titus Livi
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- ~140.000 paraules · 681 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAMaquiavel. (n.d.). Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius [Discursos sobre la primera dècada de Titus Livi]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/machiavelli/discourses-on-the-first-decade-of-titus-livius
- MLAMaquiavel. Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius [Discursos sobre la primera dècada de Titus Livi]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/machiavelli/discourses-on-the-first-decade-of-titus-livius.
- ChicagoMaquiavel. Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius [Discursos sobre la primera dècada de Titus Livi]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/machiavelli/discourses-on-the-first-decade-of-titus-livius.
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De què tracta
El llibre llarg de Maquiavel, i el republica: un comentari a la historia de Roma de Titus Livi que acaba sent una teoria de com neixen, duren i moren les republiques.
Context i història
Qui nomes conegui «El princep» s'endura una sorpresa. Aqui Maquiavel defensa que el millor govern es el mixt i popular, que el poble equivocat es menys perillos que un princep equivocat, i —el que va escandalitzar mes— que els conflictes entre plebs i senat no van debilitar Roma sino que la van fer lliure: la discordia ben canalitzada es un motor institucional, no una malaltia. Hi ha tambe la teoria de la corrupcio i del retorn als principis, i la desconfianca de les tropes mercenaries. Els «Discursos» i «El princep» es van escriure gairebé alhora i no es contradiuen tant com sembla; llegir-los junts es la manera de veure que Maquiavel no proposava una moral sino que descrivia una mecanica.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
and to plant themselves in more fertile regions; where, the fruitfulness of the soil enabling them to increase and multiply, they may defend themselves against any who attack them, and overthrow any who would withstand their power. And as for that languor which the situation might breed, care must be had that hardships which the site does not enforce, shall be enforced by the laws; and that the example of those wise nations be imitated, who, inhabiting most fruitful and delightful countries, and such as were likely to rear a listless and effeminate race, unfit for all manly exercises, in order to obviate the mischief wrought by the amenity and relaxing influence of the soil and climate, subjected all who were to serve as soldiers to the severest training; whence it came that better soldiers were raised in these countries than in others by nature rugged and barren. Such, of old, was the kingdom of the Egyptians, which, though of all lands the most bountiful, yet, by the severe training which its laws enforced, produced most valiant soldiers, who, had their names not been lost in antiquity, might be thought to deserve more praise than Alexander the Great and many besides, whose memory is still fresh in men’s minds. And even in recent times, any one contemplating the kingdom of the Soldan, and the military order of the Mamelukes before they were destroyed by Selim the Grand Turk, must have seen how carefully they trained their soldiers in every kind of warlike exercise; showing thereby how much they dreaded that indolence to which their genial soil and climate might have disposed them, unless neutralized by strenuous laws. I say, then, that it is a prudent choice to found your city in a fertile region when the effects of that fertility are duly balanced by the restraint of the laws.…