What are your thoughts on his work? What points you think are great, and others that you don't agree that much?I bought this book and I am eager to read it, but I am reading the Discourses on Livy right now
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>>25617879Will you cry about it?
>>25617841>but I am reading the Discourses on Livy right nowI find it funny how you read a chapter and he'll give 4 examples of something from antiquity then something that happened in florence, and you know the chapter just exists so he can talk about that, but he felt he had to add the ancient examples to be taken seriously.
>>25617967Renascentist writers were often like that. The trend was going back to the past and studying the classical period, Rome, Carthage, Greece and et cetera.Even in art, greco-roman characteristics became stronger than ever, and in politics too, with the rise of Republics and other forms of non-feudal governments
>>25617967But I like his examples you know? He wants to enforce the idea that, regardless the time, certain patterns do repeat.Such as corruption, it has existed since humanity's dawn, and it still exists nowadays and will keep existing.Just like Sun Tzu's art of war covered basic strategy, many leaders afterwards did commit basic mistakes, such as camping in unfavorable places, attacking well fortified positions, being too previsible and not caring about logistics, terrain and the impact of weather and other unforeseen conditions
