Prezzolini on Machiavelli's Precursors

1. Plato
2. The Sophists
3. Euripides
4. Thucydides
5. Aristotle
6. Polybius (204?-122 B.C.)
7. Plutarch
8. Carneades
9. The Romans: Cicero
10. St. Augustine (354-430)
11. Dante (1265-1321)
12. The Humanists