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Lucretius, line by line—and Machiavelli in the margins
A free online, line-matched English rendering of Lucretius, with commentary, notes, and Machiavelli’s marginal annotations.
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- Readers of Lucretius and classical philosophy
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- The translation keeps one English line per Latin line and leaves twenty textual losses unsupplied.
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The edition keeps Latin and English line numbers paired, uses fixed renderings for recurring terms, and marks twenty lost passages rather than filling them in. Its 465 notes and book-by-book commentary sit alongside 94 transcribed and translated Machiavelli annotations, each linked to the folio in Vatican MS Ross. 884. The page says the English translation is CC0; notes and commentary are separately marked CC BY 4.0.
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