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This article aims to contribute to a growing debate over the sources of a crucial opening chapter in Machiavelli’s Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (1517)— a chapter widely regarded as foundational for the politi cal theory developed in the book. Until recently, commentators have largely agreed that Book 6 of Polybius’s Histories is the principal source for the account of the formation of the state found in Discorsi 1.2, offering as evidence Machiavelli’s discussion of the mixed constitution and the cycle of constitutions (anacyclosis) that supports it.1 But, over the last de cade,
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Since its inception in 1940, the Journal of the History of Ideas has served as a medium for the publication of research in intellectual history that is of common interest to scholars and students in a wide range of fields. It is committed to encouraging diversity in regional coverage, chronological range, and methodological approaches. JHI defines intellectual history expansively and ecumenically, including the histories of philosophy, of literature and the arts, of the natural and social sciences, of religion, and of political thought. It also encourages scholarship at the intersections of cultural and intellectual history — for example, the history of the book and of visual culture.
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