Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Note on the Translation

Dedication to Duchess Cornelia Orsini di Altemps

BOOK I

1. What Is a Great City

2. On Authority

3. On Force

4. On Laying Waste the Lands of Neighbours

5. On Removing Peoples from Their Own Countries to Our City

6. On Pleasure

7. On Utility

8. On the Convenience of the Site

9. On the Fertility of the Land

10. On Convenience for Transport

BOOK II

1.

2. On the Particular Methods Employed by the Romans

3. On Colonies

4. On Religion

5. On Universities

6. On Courts of Justice

7. On Industry

8. On Fiscal Privileges

9. On the Possession of Some Valuable Commodity

10. On Political Dominion

11. On the Residence of the Nobility

12. On the Residence of the Prince

BOOK III

1.

2. Why Cities Do Not Grow Proportionately

3. On the Causes That Maintain a City’s Greatness

A Treatise. How Many People Rome Might Have Contained at the Height of Its Greatness

Bibliography

Index

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