
The Art of War (Neville trans.)
- Niccolo Machiavelli (author)
- Henry Neville (translator)
A translation by Neville, a leading English republican thinker of the 17th century, of one of the few major works of Machiavelli published in his lifetime. Machiavelli drew on his own experiences of the nearly constant warfare in which the Italian city states were involved, as well as his deep knowledge of Roman history.
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Critical Responses

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The Commonwelath of OceanaJames Harrington
Although Harrington admired Machiavelli’s republicanism, he modified Machiavelli’s ideas by emphasizing balance through property distribution rather than purely martial virtue. His vision of a civic republic is more utopian and agrarian.

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The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau critiques Machiavelli’s republicanism for being too bound to militarism and classical models. He emphasizes popular sovereignty and civic education rather than martial discipline as the foundation of a just republic.
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