Discursos sobre la primera década de Tito Livio
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- inglés
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- Obra completa
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- ~140.000 palabras · 681 pasajes
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- APAMaquiavelo. (n.d.). Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius [Discursos sobre la primera década de Tito Livio]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/machiavelli/discourses-on-the-first-decade-of-titus-livius
- MLAMaquiavelo. Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius [Discursos sobre la primera década de Tito Livio]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/machiavelli/discourses-on-the-first-decade-of-titus-livius.
- ChicagoMaquiavelo. Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius [Discursos sobre la primera década de Tito Livio]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/machiavelli/discourses-on-the-first-decade-of-titus-livius.
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De qué trata
El libro largo de Maquiavelo, y el republicano: un comentario a la historia de Roma de Tito Livio que acaba siendo una teoría de cómo nacen, duran y mueren las repúblicas.
Contexto e historia
Quien solo conozca «El príncipe» se llevará una sorpresa. Aquí Maquiavelo defiende que el mejor gobierno es el mixto y popular, que el pueblo equivocado es menos peligroso que un príncipe equivocado, y —lo que más escandalizó— que los conflictos entre plebe y senado no debilitaron a Roma sino que la hicieron libre: la discordia bien canalizada es un motor institucional, no una enfermedad. Están también la teoría de la corrupción y del retorno a los principios, y la desconfianza de las tropas mercenarias. Los «Discursos» y «El príncipe» se escribieron casi a la vez y no se contradicen tanto como parece; leerlos juntos es el modo de ver que Maquiavelo no proponía una moral sino que describía una mecánica.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…