The Prince
Published on 22. April 2022
116 pages
978-93-5656-899-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Prince, a political composition by Nicolo Machiavelli, was written in 1513.A short composition on how to earn power, create a state, and keep it, The Prince represents Machiavelli's efforts to give a guide for political actions based on the sessions of history and his own incidents as a foreign secretary in Florence. His conviction that politics has its own rules so stunned the readers that the adjectival type of his last name, Machiavellian, came to be used as a synonym for political actions marked by cunning, fraud, or dishonesty. Machiavelli mentioned his composition as De Principatibus (Of Principalities) while writing it, and it circulated in its original copy structure during the 1510s. When Machiavelli died, when it was published in 1532, it carried the title II Principe (The Prince).
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the author
- INTRODUCTION
- YOUTH - Æt. 1-25-1469-94
- OFFICE - Æt. 25-43-1494-1512
- LITERATURE AND DEATH - Æt. 43-58-1512-27
- THE MAN AND HIS WORKS
- DEDICATION
- CHAPTER I. HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED
- CHAPTER II. CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES
- CHAPTER III. CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES
- CHAPTER IV. WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH
- CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES WHICH LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS BEFORE THEY WERE ANNEXED
- CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED BY ONE'S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY
- CHAPTER VII. CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED EITHER BY THE ARMS OF OTHERS OR BY GOOD FORTUNE
- CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINCIPALITY BY WICKEDNESS
- CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY
- CHAPTER X. CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCIPALITIES OUGHT TO BE MEASURED
- CHAPTER XI. CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES
- CHAPTER XII. HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND CONCERNING MERCENARIES
- CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE'S OWN
- CHAPTER XIV. THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ART OF WAR
- CHAPTER XV. CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED
- CHAPTER XVI. CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS
- CHAPTER XVII. CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED
- CHAPTER XVIII.[1] CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH
- CHAPTER XIX. THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED
- CHAPTER XX. ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES OFTEN RESORT, ADVANTAGEOUS OR HURTFUL?
- CHAPTER XXI. HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN RENOWN
- CHAPTER XXII. CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
- CHAPTER XXIII. HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
- CHAPTER XXIV. WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES
- CHAPTER XXV. WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AND HOW TO WITHSTAND HER
- CHAPTER XXVI. AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS
- DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS ADOPTED BY THE DUKE VALENTINO WHEN MURDERING VITELLOZZO VITELLI, OLIVEROTTO DA FERMO, THE SIGNOR PAGOLO, AND THE DUKE DI GRAVINA ORSINI
- THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA
