Machiavelli : the Prince /
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| Uniform title: | Principe. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. |
| Series: | Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
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Table of Contents:
- Editor+s note
- Introduction
- Principals events in Machiavelli+s life
- Bibliographical note
- Translator+s note
- Map
- Dedicatory letter
- 1. The different kinds of principality and how they are acquired
- 2. Hereditary principalities
- 3. Mixed principalities
- 4. Why the Kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander+s death
- 5. How one should govern cities or principalities that, before being conquered, used to live under their own laws
- 6. New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability
- 7. New principalities acquired through the power of others and their favour
- 8. Those who become rulers through wicked means
- 9. The civil principality
- 10. How the strength of all principalities should be measured
- 11. Ecclesiastical principalities
- 12. The different types of army, and mercenary troops
- 13. Auxiliaries, mixed troop and negative troops
- 14. How a ruler should act concerning military matters
- 15. The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed
- 16. Generosity and meanness
- 17. Cruelty and mercifulness; and whether it is better to be loved or feared
- 18. How rulers should keep their promises
- 19. How contempt and hatred should be avoided
- 20. Whether building fortresses, and many other things that rulers frequently do, are useful or not
- 21. How a ruler should act in order to gain reputation
- 22. The secretaries of rulers
- 23. How flatterers should be shunned
- 24. Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states
- 25. How much power fortune has over human affairs, and how it should be resisted
- 26. Exhortation to liberate Italy from the Barbarian yoke
- Appendixes
- Bibliographical notes
- Index of subjects
- Index of proper names