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Though Machiavelli is famous for advising the mere 'appearance' of certain Christian and classical virtues (P XVIII), Machiavellian virtù inherits the legacy (though neither the content nor the telos) of the Christian virtue of humility, a virtue that is not present in pagan Roman accounts of heroism. I am not contending that Machiavelli is a Christian nor that he is continuing a Christian principle. Rather, I am asserting in this article that Machiavelli secularises the distinctly Christian virtue of humility, particularly in its affinity with the virtue of compassion, and that this is particularly true in his Discourses on Livy. To demonstrate how this is so, I compare Machiavelli's treatment of the Roman hero Brutus in the Discourses on Livy to the retelling of the life of Rome's liberator in Augustine's City of God.

1. Introduction -- 2. Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo, Rome and the Education of Mercy in Augustine's City of God -- 3. Michelle Kundmueller and Jeremy Castle, When a Law is No Law At All: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Use of Augustine and Aquinas in the Battle Against Segregation -- 4. Jonathan Price and Bede Mullens, O.P., Augustine's "Inner Self" and Identity Politics -- 5. Veronica Roberts Ogle, Cultus Hominum: Political Reflections on Augustine's Theological Anthropology -- 6. Greg Forster, In Rome but Not of It: Augustine between Eusebius and Donatus -- 7. Wei Hua, Augustine, Political Obedience and Chinese House Churches -- 8. Gladden Pappin, Augustine and Gallicanism -- 9. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist, Spiritual Ends and Temporal Power: An Integralist Reading of The City of God -- 10. Paul Miller, Augustinian Liberalism -- 11. Kody Cooper, Existential Humility and the Critique of Civil Religion in Augustine's Political Theology -- 12. Peter Busch, Augustine's Call to Citizenship -- 13. Mary Keys, Elitism and Secularism, Old and New: Augustine on Humility, Pride, and Philosophy in The City of God VIII-X -- 14. Paul Weithman, Pride in a Time of Crisis -- 15. Michael Lamb, Augustine and Contemporary Political Theory: Toward an Augustinian Republicanism -- 16. Boleslaw Z. Kabala and Caleb Morefield, Speech and Silence: Republican Toleration in Augustine -- 17. Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska, Augustine and Polish Republicans on the Fragility of Liberty: Questions for Today -- 18. Matthew Hallgarth, Augustine's Principled Realism -- 19. Douglas Kries, Augustine and the Flexibility of True Justice -- 20. Eric Gregory, Beyond Critique: Just War as Theological Political Theology -- 21. Nathan Pinkoski, "Love, but Be Careful What You Love": Arendt's Augustinian Fragments on Thinking -- 22. Daniel Strand, Augustine's Privation, Arendt's Banality -- 23. Conclusions.