Book, Chapter
1 1, I | what the beginning of the City of Rome was, and of her
2 1, I | so many centuries in that City, and that afterward there
3 1, I | The second case, when a city is built by foreign forces,
4 1, I | his own glory, as was the City of Alexandria built by Alexander.
5 1, I | better for the building of a city to select sterile places,
6 1, I | location in establishing [a city] is more prudent when [the
7 1, I | Great, wishing to build a city for his glory, Dinocrates,
8 1, I | arranged in a way that the City would be given human form,
9 1, I | ancestor, will know that that City was built by foreigners: [
10 1, I | either inside or outside the City, I shall begin to discourse
11 1, II | and on the contrary that City has some degree of unhappiness
12 1, II | contemplates a new order for the City, unless the necessity that
13 1, II | the institutions of the City of Rome and what events
14 1, II | who institute [laws] in a City ought to turn to one of
15 1, II | States [governments] in a City, he institutes it for only
16 1, II | when there is in the same City [government] a Principality,
17 1, II | and tranquillity to that City. The contrary happened to
18 1, II | incidents that arose in that City because of the disunion
19 1, II | not a Republic, when that City became free she lacked many
20 1, IV | other particulars of that City. I say that those who condemn
21 1, IV | them; I say, that every City ought to have their own
22 1, IV | People; among which the City of Rome had this method,
23 1, V | houses [offices] of the City. And it appearing to the
24 1, VI | on those rocks where the City now is, for the reasons
25 1, VI | discuss the affairs of the City; when it appeared to them
26 1, VI | men, as the offices of the City were extended to few Citizens,
27 1, VI | and real tranquillity to a City. But all affairs of men
28 1, VII | those who are appointed in a City to guard its liberty, as
29 1, VII | citizens may arise in the City. And when these moods do
30 1, VII | partisans factions arise in the City, [and] the factions cause
31 1, VII | was as a Prince in that City [and] who being judged ambitious
32 1, VII | citizens. We could also city in support of the above
33 1, VII | party of men who live in a City, it can be judged to result
34 1, VII | at that time a most noble City of Tuscany, one Lucumones
35 1, VII | by the provisions of the City, he would not have sought
36 1, VIII | created] many tumults in the City: This thing displeased the
37 1, VIII | poorly organized in our City of Florence. And as in Rome
38 1, VIII | reads the history of this City, will see how many calumnies
39 1, VIII | could not have harmed the City, and there would have been
40 1, VIII | fortune, that the fall of that City did not ensue. But whatever
41 1, IX | institutions at the origin of that City were more in conformity
42 1, IX | deviating in part from them his City had lost much of that ancient
43 1, X | ceremonies corrupted, the City full of adulterers: he will
44 1, X | desire to possess a corrupt City, not to spoil it entirely
45 1, X | if to want to organize a City well, it should be necessary
46 1, XI | Numa had introduced in that City. And whoever considers well
47 1, XI | and institutions in that City, and was apprehensive that
48 1, XI | are used to living in the City, where civilization is corrupt,
49 1, XI | for the felicity of that City, for it caused good ordinances,
50 1, XII | soldiers were sacking the City of Veienti, some of whom
51 1, XII | the other Princes of the City.~If the Princes of the Republic
52 1, XIII | RELIGION TO ESTABLISH THE CITY AND TO CARRY OUT THEIR ENTERPRISES
53 1, XIII | order to reorganize the City and to further their enterprises.
54 1, XIII | seen at the capture of the City of the Veienti, that the
55 1, XIII | replies that that year the City of the Veienti should be
56 1, XIII | made Dictator captured that City after it had been besieged
57 1, XIII | both in the capture of that City and for the restoration
58 1, XIII | and to give a reply to the City, that through the medium
59 1, XIII | year the danger of [the City] losing its liberty; which
60 1, XIII | people] the danger to the City and the unreasonableness
61 1, XVII | matter that a corrupted City which exists under a Prince,
62 1, XVII | while they lived, kept that City free: but when they died,
63 1, XVII | difference in events in the same City did not result from anything
64 1, XVII | into the vitals of that City; which corruption was the
65 1, XVII | said a little above) that a City coming to decadence because
66 1, XVII | will be enough to bring a City back to good habits which
67 1, XVII | inequality that exists in that City; and wanting to bring them
68 1, XVIII | IN WHAT WAY IN A CORRUPT CITY A FREE STATE CAN BE MAINTAINED,
69 1, XVIII | State can be maintained in a City that is corrupted, or, if
70 1, XVIII | And I will presuppose a City very corrupt, where such
71 1, XVIII | circumstances and events in a City, its institutions rarely
72 1, XVIII | that such institutions in a City that had become corrupt
73 1, XVIII | other high offices of the City, except to those who asked
74 1, XVIII | pernicious in a corrupt City, for it was not those who
75 1, XVIII | as these springs up in a City: and even if one should
76 1, XVIII | to become Prince of that City, and to be able to dispose
77 1, XVIII | the political life of a City presupposes a good man,
78 1, XVIII | maintaining a Republic in a City that has become corrupted,
79 1, XIX | Romulus, otherwise that City would have become effeminate
80 1, XXI | finding themselves in a City accustomed to servitude,
81 1, XXII | that in a well organized City, the demerits [crimes] are
82 1, XXII | servitude means much to a City, that it ought never to
83 1, XXIV | orders are well observed, a City will exist free for a long
84 1, XXIV | some eminent work for the City, there is added to his reputation
85 1, XXV | ANCIENT STATE INTO A FREE CITY, SHOULD RETAIN AT LEAST
86 1, XXV | State [Government] of a City, and wishes that it may
87 1, XXV | system of] living in a City and bring it to a new and
88 1, XXVI | CHAPTER XXVI~A NEW PRINCE IN A CITY OR PROVINCE TAKEN BY HIM
89 1, XXVI | becomes Prince either of a City or a State, and more so
90 1, XXVI | that State; such as in the City to make new Governors with
91 1, XXVII | not wait to enter in that City with his army that was protecting
92 1, XXVII | leaving a governor in that City who should administer it
93 1, XXVIII | citizens, so that in that [City] there was no great reason
94 1, XXVIII | other violence which that City at various times took up
95 1, XXIX | also defend itself; for a City which exists free has two
96 1, XXIX | against him, and to say that a City could not be called free
97 1, XXX | government, for as all the City, both the Nobles and Ignobles [
98 1, XXXIII | to give only one of our City [of Florence]. Cosimo De’
99 1, XXXIII | the house of Medici in our City owed the beginning of its
100 1, XXXIV | who introduced into that City the method of creating a
101 1, XXXIV | tyrant who existed in that City commanded her under this
102 1, XXXIV | always did good to the City. For it is the Magistrates
103 1, XXXIV | ancient institutions of the City and the making of new ones.
104 1, XXXIV | his limits and harm the City: but from experience it
105 1, XXXIV | experience it is seen that it [City] always benefited by him.~
106 1, XXXIV | Consuls, as the Chiefs of the City had to come to the same
107 1, XXXVI | the institutions of that City were adept at making her
108 1, XXXVI | accept a lesser, and the City consents to them what she
109 1, XXXVII | THE ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF THE CITY~It was the verdict of ancient
110 1, XXXVII | defect in that law in the City of Rome, which either was
111 1, XXXVII | of in Rome without that City going upside down [from
112 1, XXXVII | this was brought up, that City would go upside-down, and
113 1, XXXVII | Tyrant in Rome, so that City was never again free.~Such,
114 1, XXXVII | various ways and means in a City, it will soon bring that
115 1, XXXVII | it will soon bring that City to ruin. So that if the
116 1, XXXVIII| State [Government] of our City in the year one thousand
117 1, XXXVIII| and offered to give up the City to the French army, with
118 1, XXXVIII| after he had gone inside the City, and if he did not restore
119 1, XXXVIII| perfidy]; but not having [the City] he could promise it to
120 1, XXXVIII| with his forces inside that City rather than [with them]
121 1, XXXIX | exist in every time.~The City of Florence, having after
122 1, XL | that Solon gave to that City, so as to be able to base
123 1, XL | Appius remained to govern the City: whereupon it happened that
124 1, XL | will become Tyrant of that City. For [together] with the
125 1, XLV | EVERY DAY NEW INJURIES IN A CITY AND TO THE ONE WHO GOVERNS
126 1, XLV | have been generated in that City, if it had not been foreseen
127 1, XLVI | already grown much in a City; so that the matter in the
128 1, XLVII | were the majority in the City, because they bore more
129 1, XLVII | the peril to which that City was exposed because of the
130 1, XLVII | being killed by them, if the City was given up to Hannibal,
131 1, XLVII | they would not want their City to remain without a government,
132 1, XLVII | Since you judge that this City would be badly off without
133 1, XLVII | when the Princes of the City had been driven from Florence,
134 1, XLVII | populari seeing the ruin of the City and not understanding the
135 1, XLIX | the less in managing that City new needs were always discovered
136 1, XLIX | is seen, happened to the City of Florence which, for having
137 1, XLIX | major disorders in that City. And to come to some particular
138 1, XLIX | powerful [citizens].~The City of Venice is guarded from
139 1, L | STOP THE ACTIVITIES OF A CITY~When T. Quintus Cincinnatus
140 1, L | never to be established in a City the ability of a few to
141 1, L | to the Magistrates of the City and to those who administered
142 1, L | the subject lands and the City itself lacked their legitimate
143 1, L | would have brought that City to a bad end if it had not
144 1, L | be inside or outside the City should never vacate their
145 1, LII | cause for tumult in that City, and this would have taken
146 1, LII | reputation for himself in the City of Florence alone by favoring
147 1, LII | lover of liberty in the City. And certainly it would
148 1, LIII | THEM~After conquering the City of the Veienti, there entered
149 1, LIII | be a useful thing for the City of Rome if one half of the
150 1, LIII | arguing that because that City was rich in countryside,
151 1, LIII | killed.~In Greece in the City of Athens, Nicias, a most
152 1, LIII | can be given of our own City, as it was when Messer Ercole
153 1, LIII | But if the ruin of the City results from this, there
154 1, LIV | he who finds himself in a City where a tumult has arisen,
155 1, LIV | celebrated throughout the City for many days.~I conclude,
156 1, LV | THINGS ARE MANAGED IN THAT CITY WHERE THE MULTITUDE IS NOT
157 1, LV | all the inhabitants of the City [a tax] of one or two percent
158 1, LVI | GREAT EVENTS OCCUR IN A CITY OR A PROVINCE, SIGNS COME
159 1, LVI | event ever takes place in a City or a Province that has not
160 1, LIX | taking refuge in Athens as a City friendly and obligated to
161 1, LX | would also be found in every City that wanted to have the
162 1, LX | result [the Consulship]. The City that does not admit its
163 1, LX | discussed elsewhere; but that City which wants to accomplish
164 1, LX | very harmful thing if that City should not then be able
165 2 | descending. And we see a City or a Province well-organized
166 2 | if they are born in that City or province after the time
167 2 | internal affairs of the City, in this [book] we shall
168 2, II | injury the people and the City received from such servitude.
169 2, II | does for himself harms the City, and what is done for the
170 2, II | and what is done for the City harms him. So that soon
171 2, II | evil which results to that City is for it not to progress
172 2, II | make them tributary to the City of which he is the Tyrant,
173 2, II | could be established in that City. It is also no wonder that
174 2, II | which happened in Corcyra, a City of Greece, in the times
175 2, II | it happened in the said City [Corcyra] that the nobles
176 2, III | III~ROME BECAME A GREAT CITY BY RUINING THE SURROUNDING
177 2, III | Alba] Those who plan for a City to achieve great Empire
178 2, III | never succeed in making a City great. This is done in two
179 2, III | inhabitants to live in your City. Which was so greatly observed
180 2, III | enlarged the population of the City in both those two ways,
181 2, III | arts: of a kind so that the City could never increase its
182 2, IV | increasing the population of your City. And as these two Cities [
183 2, IV | pressed by a very large City like Rome: and when they
184 2, IV | found within themselves, the City having become greatly populated
185 2, VI | with the tributes from the City. Which system in a short
186 2, IX | the best remedy which a City has, that is unable to defend
187 2, XIV | have not moved from their City. Whence is there such modesty,
188 2, XV | protection, and gave the City one month to ratify it.
189 2, XV | voluntarily. Which cost the City of Florence much money,
190 2, XVI | the Florentines and that City because of her rebellion,
191 2, XVII | from the fortress to the City with artillery, placing
192 2, XVII | artillery] occupied the City, nor from what was heard
193 2, XVII | So that the defense of a City is reduced to defending
194 2, XIX | have believed that for the city to increase its inhabitants,
195 2, XIX | internal affairs of the City well with laws and other
196 2, XIX | Republic when they acquire a City or a Province full of luxury,
197 2, XIX | further distant from the City [of Rome], and if the errors
198 2, XX | Rhegians, whose lives and city were taken away by a legion
199 2, XX | opportunity to occupy a City or a Province, than to be
200 2, XXI | TO MAKE WAR [AGAINST THAT CITY]~It has been discussed at
201 2, XXI | Roman Citizen within that City who would restore order
202 2, XXI | criminal decisions in that City, [and] no sentence being
203 2, XXI | present has he allowed that City to be governed by itself
204 2, XXI | Everyone knows how the City of Pistoia a long time ago
205 2, XXIII | and greatly increased the City of Florence, and given her
206 2, XXIII | their ancient ranks in the City, but left the City entire.
207 2, XXIII | in the City, but left the City entire. And when any Citizen
208 2, XXIII | individual men, and a whole City, will some times so sin
209 2, XXIII | given to the Latins, when a City, powerful and accustomed
210 2, XXIV | people of Latium and of the City of Privernum, did not think
211 2, XXIV | built one to hold either a City or a province, but they
212 2, XXIV | to keep the people of the City in restraint with these
213 2, XXIV | Republic, want to keep a City in restraint that has been
214 2, XXIV | built a fortress in that City, and afterwards had those
215 2, XXIV | fortresses in order to hold that City, and did not understand
216 2, XXIV | understand that to hold a City which was always hostile
217 2, XXIV | the Florentines of that City: and the means by which
218 2, XXIV | even did not permit the City to have walls, because they
219 2, XXIV | he replied “yes, if the [City] was inhabited by women”.~
220 2, XXIV | country regardless of the City or fortress which they leave
221 2, XXIV | ought indeed to fortify the City where he lives, and keep
222 2, XXIV | keep the Citizens of that City well disposed, in order
223 2, XXV | ASSAULTING OF A DISUNITED CITY IN ORDER TO OCCUPY IT BY
224 2, XXV | confidence of the people of that City which is disunited, and
225 2, XXV | you had presupposed. The City of Pistoia (as I have said
226 2, XXV | the arms of Florence. The City of Siena has never changed
227 2, XXV | large, they caused that City to become united in defense
228 2, XXVII | those times for having their City situated on water like the
229 2, XXVII | Alexander, indignant that a City should close those doors
230 2, XXVII | of siege] that taking the City would take away more time
231 2, XXVII | Florence and to tax the City, they being called there
232 2, XXIX | happen much more often in a City or a Province which lacks
233 2, XXIX | means for the defense of the City of Rome. And yet in ordaining
234 2, XXX | other neighbors. But if this City had been armed and strong,
235 2, XXX | similar proof, and if their City had not been surrounded
236 2, XXX | much more he found that City powerful to resist him.
237 2, XXXII | they called attacking the city in crown fashion) because
238 2, XXXII | because they surrounded the City with the entire army, as
239 2, XXXII | means of it entered the City, by which method they took
240 2, XXXII | which method they took the City from the Veienti: or in
241 2, XXXII | which in wanting to avoid, a City surrenders. Of all the methods
242 2, XXXII | but in taking an obstinate City by siege, they consumed
243 3, I | the institutions of that City should be resumed, and that
244 3, I | every ten years in that City, it would have followed
245 3, I | later Cato, who, finding the City in good part corrupt, was
246 3, I | many good results in that City, I shall come to the narration
247 3, VI | who were to overrun the City and call the people to liberty.
248 3, VI | was the respect which that City had for its citizens. And
249 3, VI | seized the Tyrancy of that City. So that examining all the
250 3, VI | Florentines, quickly went to that City, and without taking into
251 3, VIII | considering the customs of the City, nor examining its condition,
252 3, VIII | see the perfection of that City, and the excellence of its
253 3, VIII | seeing that no one of that City moved to defend a Citizen
254 3, VIII | other means in a corrupt City than in one which still
255 3, VIII | corrupt the people of a City, but it is impossible that
256 3, VIII | had been born in a corrupt City. And therefore the Citizens
257 3, X | to shut yourself up in a City; and both of these proceedings
258 3, X | yourself with the army into a City, you will come to be besieged,
259 3, XI | Tribunes of the plebs in the City of Rome was great and necessary,
260 3, XII | therefore, desires that a City be defended obstinately,
261 3, XII | who has to go to destroy a City, ought to measure the ease
262 3, XII | well the neighbors of the City of Florence and the neighbors
263 3, XII | and the neighbors of the City of Venice, will not marvel (
264 3, XII | few ambitious ones in the City. This has often facilitated
265 3, XII | having already entered the City of the Veienti with his
266 3, XII | down their arms and the City was taken almost without
267 3, XIV | times. A few years ago the City of Perugia was divided into
268 3, XIV | partisans, they entered that City, and without being discovered
269 3, XIV | the piazza. And as that City had the streets in all of
270 3, XVI | early times. For as that City always kept armies [outside]
271 3, XVI | reputation and adherents in that City. And if the City of Rome
272 3, XVI | in that City. And if the City of Rome was defended from
273 3, XVI | by the consent of all the City.~Many wars having occurred
274 3, XVI | wars having occurred in our City of Florence after [the year]
275 3, XVI | chance there was found in the City one who showed in what manner
276 3, XVI | so long delayed, that the City of Florence purchased it [
277 3, XVI | either by the ruin of the City (he being able to) or by
278 3, XVII | shame throughout the entire City, not without great dishonor
279 3, XVII | be avenged against that City and those Citizens who had
280 3, XVII | exist in a Citizen of a City that was not like she was.
281 3, XVIII | before Pisa and pressed that city strongly; the Venetians
282 3, XX | with his army around the City of The Faliscians, and besieging
283 3, XX | more noble children of that City, thinking to ingratiate
284 3, XX | went with them outside the City and led them all to the
285 3, XX | times that province and that City, which, with arms, instruments
286 3, XXII | to himself, because his city becoming suspicious of the
287 3, XXIV | decisions was harmful to the City. And if the other citizens
288 3, XXIV | being at the siege of the City of Paleopolis, and the end
289 3, XXVI | difference arose in the City of Ardea between the Patricians
290 3, XXVI | when the Roman entered the City, they put to death all the
291 3, XXVI | and restored order in that City. There are several things
292 3, XXVI | damage to those who govern a City, and have caused many divisions
293 3, XXVI | notable way of reuniting a City, of which we will treat
294 3, XVII | CHAPTER XVII~HOW A DIVIDED CITY IS TO BE UNITED, AND HOW
295 3, XVII | IT IS NECESSARY TO KEEP A CITY DISUNITED IN ORDER TO HOLD
296 3, XVII | be noted of how a divided City ought to have its order
297 3, XVII | to remove them from the City, or for them to make peace
298 3, XVII | be given than that of the City of Pistoia.~Fifteen years
299 3, XVII | Fifteen years before, that City was divided (as it is now)
300 3, XVII | which the wise men of our City said at one time, that is,
301 3, XVII | is impossible to guard a City that has enemies outside
302 3, XVII | citizens bad, and to make your City divided, than to have a
303 3, XVII | division of parties in the City; for each side seeks to
304 3, XXVIII | HIDDEN UNDER A PIOUS ACT~The City of Rome was afflicted by
305 3, XXVIII | benefits it gives to the City and not on any harm to it
306 3, XXX | AND HOW THE DEFENSE OF A CITY OUGHT TO BE ORGANIZED ON
307 3, XXX | was to serve to keep the City guarded, [and] to defend
308 3, XXX | accustomed to live in a corrupt City, where education has not
309 3, XXX | both inside and outside the City, for the safety of Rome.
310 3, XXX | have in Rome to guard that City; for many had judged and
311 3, XXX | in charge of guarding a City ought to avoid as a dangerous
312 3, XXX | follow these orders in a City under attack, are able easily
313 3, XXXI | ruined. If, therefore, a City would be armed and organized
314 3, XXXIV | great and valiant men in the City and so it was believed that
315 3, XXXIV | the highest offices of the City, where it would be dangerous
316 3, XXXV | to the Prince or to the City [Republic] without regard [
317 3, XXXV | that if the Princes or the City follows it, they do so voluntarily
318 3, XXXV | misfortune that happens to your City or your Prince, none the
319 3, XLIII | reads of past events of our City of Florence, and takes in
320 3, XLIII | have greatly harmed our City. And as to bad faith, everyone
321 3, XLVI | HAPPENS THAT A FAMILY IN A CITY FOR A TIME, HAVE THE SAME
322 3, XLVI | CUSTOMS~It appears that one City not only has certain ways
323 3, XLVI | effeminate, but within one City such differences are seen
324 3, XLVI | This is proved in every City, and many examples are seen
325 3, XLVI | examples are seen in the City of Rome; for there are seen
326 3, XLIX | happens that in a great City incidents arise every day
327 3, XLIX | incidents ever arose in such a City, they arose in Rome; as
328 3, XLIX | been dangerous for that City, and if the Romans had not
329 3, XLIX | or [to destroy] an entire City, and to exile eight or ten
330 3, XLIX | a prudent man, ruin the City. Because of the liberality
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