The Prince

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 6
A Note on the Translation......Page 24
Map......Page 27
THE PRINCE......Page 28
Dedicatory Letter......Page 30
I. How Many Are the Kinds of Principalities and in What Modes They Are Acquired......Page 32
II. Of Hereditary Principalities......Page 33
III. Of Mixed Principalities......Page 34
IV. Why the Kingdom of Darius Which Alexander Seized Did Not Rebel from His Successors after Alexander's Death......Page 43
V. How Cities or Principalities Which Lived by Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered......Page 47
VI. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired through One's Own Arms and Virtue......Page 48
VII. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired by Others' Arms and Fortune......Page 52
VIII. Of Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes......Page 61
IX. Of the Civil Principality......Page 65
X. In What Mode the Forces of All Principalities Should Be Measured......Page 69
XI. Of Ecclesiastical Principalities......Page 72
XII. How Many Kinds of Military There Are and Concerning Mercenary Soldiers......Page 75
XIII. Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and One's Own Soldiers......Page 81
XIV. What a Prince Should Do Regarding the Military......Page 85
XV. Of Those Things for Which Men and Especially Princes Are Praised or Blamed......Page 88
XVI. Of Liberality and Parsimony......Page 89
XVII. Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary......Page 92
XVIII. In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes......Page 95
XIX. Of Avoiding Contempt and Hatred......Page 98
XX. Whether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every Day Are Useful or Useless......Page 110
XXI. What a Prince Should Do to Be Held in Esteem......Page 114
XXII. Of Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries......Page 119
XXIII. In What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided......Page 120
XXIV. Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States......Page 123
XV. How Much Fortune Can Do In Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed......Page 125
XVI. Exhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians......Page 128
Appendix......Page 134