The Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio are printed
In 1531 Blado printed the Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli’s long unpublished argument for mixed government, conflict, and citizen virtue. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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In 1531 Blado printed the Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli’s long unpublished argument for mixed government, conflict, and citizen virtue. The Prince of 1532 is a different book. This Fact is the Discourses as a public republican instrument.
Context
Print made a republican alternative to princely fear copyable in the same decade. Readers still collapse the two books. The catalog must not.
Niccolò Machiavelli is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
A printed republican commentary is an improving resilience path. High confidence on the 1531 publication.
High confidence on the 1531 publication.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Niccolo Machiavelli
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.44 · verified
Florentine secretary and writer as documented. Printers, censors, and later rulers reuse the name.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio are printed
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1531 · verified
A printed republican commentary is an improving resilience path. High confidence on the 1531 publication.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.35 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Discourses on LivyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio — Internet ArchiveInternet Archive · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorNiccolo Machiavelli
- contributed toFactThe Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio are printed
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). The Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio are printed. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-discorsi-printed-1531
https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-discorsi-printed-1531
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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