Discourses - Machiavelli

Discourses Upon The First Ten (Books) of Titus Livy To ZANOBI BUONDELMONTI AND TO COSIMO RUCELLAI By NICCOLO Machiavelli 1517 NICCOLO Machiavelli TO ZANOBI BUONDELMONTI AND TO COSIMO RUCELLAI 2 GREETINGS. I send you a present which if it is not equal to the obligations that I have toward you, it is one which without doubt the best that Niccolo Machiavelli has been able to offer you. Because in it I have expressed what I know and what I have learned through a long experience and a continuing study of the things of the world. And neither you nor others being able to desire more of me, I have not offered you more. You may well complain of the poverty of my endeavor since these narrations of mine are poor, and of the fallacy of (my) judgment when I deceive myself in many parts of my discussion. Which being so, I do not know which of us should be less obligated to the other, either I to you who have forced me to write that which by myself I would not have written, or you to me that having written I have not satisfied you.

2 GREETINGS. I send you a present which if it is not equal to the obligations that I have toward you, it is one which without doubt the best …

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