The Discourse on Reforming the Government of Florence (Italian: Discorso sopra il riformare lo stato di Firenze) is a 1520 work by Italian Renaissance political scientist and writer Niccolò Machiavelli.Silvia Ruffo-Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli, Twayne's World Author Series (1982), pg.174 Dante L. Germino, Machiavelli to Marx, University of Chicago Press (1979), pg.24
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Further reading Full Text of the Discourse in Italian, Bibliotheca Philosophica Full Text of the Discourse in English, Constitution Society