When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (2.1)
- Justin (6.8)
- Pope Leo X (11.5)
- Tacitus, Annals (13.8)
- Xenophon, Life of Cyrus (14.5)
- Virgil, Aeneid (17.1)
- Livy (26.3)
- Petrarch (26.7)
Historical References
- Francesco Sforza (1.1)
- King of Spain (1.1)
- Pope Julius II (2.3)
- Louis XII (3.2)
- Duke Ludovico (3.2)
- The Romans (3.8)
- King Charles VIII (3.11)
- Pope Alexander (3.13)
- Alexander the Great (4.1)
- The Spartans (5.2)
- Moses (6.4)
- Romulus (6.4)
- Cyrus (6.4)
- Theseus (6.4)
- Girolamo Savonarola (6. 7)
- Hiero of Syracuse (6.8)
- Francesco Sforza (7.3)
- Cesare Borgia (7.3)
- The Orsini Family (7.4)
- The Colonna family (7.4)
- Remirro de Orco (7.8)
- Agathocles (8.2)
- Oliverotto (8.4)
- Vitellozzo Vitelli (8.6)
- Nabis, King of Sparta (9.6)
- Pope Sixtus (11.3)
- Pope Alexander VI (11.4)
- Pope Leo X (11.5)
- Phillip of Macedonia (12.5)
- Giovanni Acuto (12.6)
- Philopoemen (13.4)
- Hannibal (17.7)
- Scipio (17.8)
- Achilles (18.2)
- Chiron (18.2)
- Marcus Aurelius (19.8)
- Maximinus (19.8)
- Severus (19.13)
- Antoninus (19.16)
- Commodus (19.19)