Machiavelli: The Prince

Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Editorial Note
Introduction
Principal Events in Machiavelli’s Life
Bibliographical Note
Translator’s Note
Note on the Text
Maps
The Prince
Dedicatory Letter: Niccolò Machiavelli to His Magnificence Lorenzo de’ Medicia
	Chapter I How Many Kinds of Principality There Are, and by What Means They Are Acquired
	Chapter II Hereditary Principalities
	Chapter III Mixed Principalities
	Chapter IV Why the Kingdom of Darius, Which Alexander Occupied, Did Not Rebel against His Successors after Alexander’s Death
	Chapter V By What Means Cities or Provinces that Lived under Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Ought to Be Administered
	Chapter VI New Principalities Acquired by One’s Own Arms and Ability
	Chapter VII New Principalities Acquired through the Arms and Fortune of Others
	Chapter VIII Those Who Become Rulers through Crime
	Chapter IX The Civil Principality
	Chapter X In What Ways the Strengths of All Principalities Should Be Measured
	Chapter XI Ecclesiastical Principalities
	Chapter XII How Many Kinds of Soldiers There Are, and Mercenary Troops
	Chapter XIII Auxiliaries, Mixed Troops and One’s Own Troops
	Chapter XIV How a Ruler Should Act Concerning Military Matters
	Chapter XV The Things for Which Men, and Especially Rulers, Are Praised or Blamed
	Chapter XVI Liberality and Parsimony
	Chapter XVII Cruelty and Mercifulness; and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved than Feared, or the Contrary
	Chapter XVIII In What Way Rulers Should Keep Their Promises
	Chapter XIX How Contempt and Hatred Should Be Avoided
	Chapter XX Whether Building Fortresses, and Many Other Things That Rulers Frequently Do, Are Useful or Useless
	Chapter XXI What a Ruler Should Do in Order to Be Thought Outstanding
	Chapter XXII On Those Whom Rulers Employ in Secret Matters
	Chapter XXIII How Flatterers Should Be Shunned
	Chapter XXIV Why the Rulers of Italy Have Lost Their States
	Chapter XXV How Much Control Fortune Has over Human Affairs, and by What Means She Should Be Resisted
	Chapter XXVI An Exhortation to Seize Possession of Italy and Assert Her Liberty from the Barbarians
Appendix A Letters Relevant to The Prince
Appendix B Notes on the Vocabulary of The Prince
Biographical Notes
Index of Subjects
Index of Proper Names