id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt gx41mg76z5n Ashleen Kelly Menchaca-Bagnulo My City Before My Soul: Reading the Discourses on Livy as a Retelling of Augustine's City of God 2014 .txt text/plain 206 8 45 I then turn to Machiavelli's use of rituals and other institutions, which parallels Augustine's use of rituals, and how Machiavelli uses these institutions and rituals to solve the problem of corruption. To elucidate this point, I begin with an analysis of Augustine's account of corruption and finitude and its implications for political life. cache/gx41mg76z5n.txt txt/gx41mg76z5n.txt