The Prince

by Machiavelli, Niccolo; Mansfield, Harvey C.

• ISBN13: 9780226500430
• ISBN10: 0226500438
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Classic, Renaissance-era guide to acquiring and maintaining political power. Today, nearly 500 years after it was written, this calculating prescription for autocratic rule continues to be much read and studied.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
A Note on the Translation	xxv
Chronology	xxix
Map	xxxii
The Prince	1	(2)
Dedicatory Letter	3	(2)
How Many Are the Kinds of Principalities and in What Modes They Are Acquired	5	(1)
Of Hereditary Principalities	6	(1)
Of Mixed Principalities	7	(9)
Why the Kingdom of Darius Which Alexander Seized Did Not Rebel from His Successors after Alexander's Death	16	(4)
How Cities or Principalities Which Lived by Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered	20	(1)
Of New Principalities That Are Acquired through One's Own Arms and Virtue	21	(4)
Of New Principalities That Are Acquired by Other's Arms and Fortune	25	(9)
Of Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes	34	(4)
Of the Civil Principality	38	(4)
In What Mode the Forces of All Principalities Should Be Measured	42	(3)
Of Ecclesiastical Principalities	45	(3)
How Many Kinds of Military There Are and Concerning Mercenary Soldiers	48	(6)
Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and One's Own Soldiers	54	(4)
What a Prince Should Do Regarding the Military	58	(3)
Of Those Things for Which Men and Especially Princes Are Praised or Blamed	61	(1)
Of Liberality and Parsimony	62	(3)
Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary	65	(3)
In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes	68	(3)
Of Avoiding Contempt and Hatred	71	(12)
Whether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every Day Are Useful or Useless	83	(4)
What a Prince Should Do to be Held in Esteem	87	(5)
Of Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries	92	(1)
In What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided	93	(3)
Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States	96	(2)
How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed	98	(3)
Exhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians	101	(6)
Appendix Machiavelli's Letter of December 10, 1513	107	(6)
Glossary	113	(28)
Bibliography	141	(4)
Index of Proper Names	145