# Tarquin — Discourses on Livy character guide

> Tarquin in Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the younger Tarquin, Tarquin the Proud

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

Last king of Rome whose tyranny led to the establishment of the Republic.

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