Commentary

• Machiavelli and the Nature of Political Thought

  - Martin Fleisher, ed. Machiavelli and the Nature of Political Thought. New York: Atheneum, 1972.

• Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the “Discourses on Livy”

  - Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the “Discourses on Livy”. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
  From the publisher: 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… More

• Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England

  - Vickie B. Sullivan. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

• Machiavelli’s Liberal Republican Legacy

  - Paul A. Rahe, ed. Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

• “Machiavelli and the Art of Political Founding”

  - Steven Smith. "Machiavelli and the Art of Political Founding." Chap. 7 in Political Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.