Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the “Discourses on Livy”. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
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Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders is the only full-length interpretive study on Machiavelli’s controversial and ambiguous work, Discourses on Livy. These discourses, considered by some to be Machiavelli’s most important work, are thoroughly explained in a chapter-by-chapter commentary by Harvey C. Mansfield, one of the world’s foremost interpreters of this remarkable philosopher.
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