"[I translated Livy to propose] the imitation of every true virtue of the Roman people."
— Livy

January 1, 1970

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Jacopo Nardi, preface to Livy, Le deche delle historie romane (Venice, 1540), quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 147