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PREFACE BY
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
CITIZEN AND SECRETARY OF FLORENCE ON
THE BOOKS ON THE ART OF WAR
TO
LORENZO DI FILIPPO STROZZI,
A GENTLEMAN OF FLORENCE
Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that there is nothing which has less in common with another, and that is so dissimilar, as civilian life is from the military. Whence it is often [...]
FIRST BOOK
As I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking, I am not apprehensive in praising our own Cosimo Ruccelai, whose name is never remembered by me without tears, as I have recognized in him those [...]
SECOND BOOK
I believe that it is necessary, once the men are found, to arm them; and in wanting to do this, I believe it is necessary to examine what arms the ancients used, and from them select the best. The Romans divided their infantry into the heavily and lightly armed. The light armed they gave [...]
THIRD BOOK
COSIMO: Since we are changing the discussion, I would like the questioner to be changed, so that I may not be held to be presumptuous, which I have always censured in others. I, therefore, resign the speakership, and I surrender it to any of these friends of mine who want it.
ZANOBI: It would be [...]
FOURTH BOOK
LUIGI: Since an engagement has been won so honorably under my Rule, I think it is well if I do not tempt fortune further, knowing how changeable and unstable it is. And, therefore, I desire to resign my speakership, and that, wanting to follow the order that belongs to the youngest, Zanobi now assume [...]
FIFTH BOOK
FABRIZIO: I have shown you how to organize an army to battle another army which is seen posted against you, and I have told you how it is overcome, and also of the many circumstances which can occur because of the various incidents surrounding it, so that it appears to me now to be [...]
SIXTH BOOK
ZANOBI: I believe it is well, since the discussion ought to be changed, that Battista take up his office, and I resign mine; and in this case we would come to imitate the good Captains, according as I have already learned here from the Lord, who place the best soldiers in the front and [...]
SEVENTH BOOK
You ought to know that towns and fortresses can be strong either by nature or industry. Those are strong by nature which are surrounded by rivers or marshes, as is Mantua or Ferrara, or those situated on a rock or sloping mountain, as Monaco and San Leo; for those situated on mountains which are [...]
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- Daily Manna from the 'Net for Thursday, November 12, 2009 [1 Peter 3:18-21]For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein […]
- Daily Manna from the 'Net for Thursday, November 12, 2009 [1 Peter 3:18-21]
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- Scripture for Thursday, November 12, 2009 [ﺑﻄﺮﺱ ﺍﻻﻭﻝ 3:18-21]فَإِنَّ الْمَسِيحَ نَفْسَهُ مَاتَ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً لِكَيْ يَحُلَّ مُشْكِلَةَ الْخَطَايَا. فَمَعَ أَنَّهُ هُوَ البَارُّ، فَقَدْ تَأَلَّمَ مِنْ أَجْلِنَا نَحْنُ الْمُذْنِبِينَ، لِكَيْ يُقَرِّبَنَا إِلَى اللهِ، فَمَاتَ بِجِسْمِهِ الْبَشَرِيِّ، ثُمَّ عَادَ حَيّاً بِالرُّوحِ. بِهَذَا الرُّوحِ نَفْسِهِ، ذَهَبَ قَدِيماً وَبَشَّرَ النَّاسَ الَّذِينَ أَصْبَحَتْ أَرْ […]
- Scripture for Thursday, November 12, 2009 [ﺑﻄﺮﺱ ﺍﻻﻭﻝ 3:18-21]
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