Classical Literature

“The Prince” by Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527; Ricci, Luigi “Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527. The father of modern political theory, Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469, saw the troubles of the French invasion (1493), when the Medici fled, and in 1498 became secretary of the Ten, a post he held until the […]

(E-BOOK) The Aeneid of Virgil

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“THE AENEID OF VIRGIL” TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY J. W. MACKAIL, M.A. FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, 1885.

(E-Book) The Confessions of St. Augustine by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

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“Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest the proud: yet would man praise Thee; he, […]

[E-Book] “A Treatise on Government” by Aristotle

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“Now this is called a city, and the society thereof a political society; for those who think that the principles of a political, a regal, a family, and a herile government are the same are mistaken, while they suppose that each of these differ in the numbers to whom their power extends, but not in […]