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The Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy ( Discorsi ) nominally discuss a classical history of early Ancient Rome.

Machiavelli presents it as a series of lessons on how a republic should be started and structured.

It is a larger work than the Prince, and it more openly explains the advantages of republics.

It includes early versions of the concept of checks and balances, and asserts the superiority of a republic over a principality.

It became one of the central texts of republicanism.