The Prince

Contents

1. Chapter 1: How Many Kinds of Principalities There Are
2. Chapter 2: Concerning Hereditary Principalities
3. Chapter 3: Concerning Mixed Principalities
4. Chapter 4: Why Darius' Kingdom Did Not Rebel
5. Chapter 5: How Cities or Principalities Are Governed
6. Chapter 6: New Principalities Acquired by One's Own Arms
7. Chapter 7: New Principalities Acquired by Others' Arms
8. Chapter 8: Those Who Obtain Principalities by Wickedness
9. Chapter 9: Concerning a Civil Principality
10. Chapter 10: How the Strength of Principalities Should Be Measured
11. Chapter 11: Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities
12. Chapter 12: How Many Kinds of Soldiery There Are
13. Chapter 13: Concerning Auxiliaries, Mixed Soldiery, and One's Own
14. Chapter 14: What Concerns a Prince on the Art of War
15. Chapter 15: Things for Which Men and Princes Are Praised or Blamed
16. Chapter 16: Concerning Liberality and Meanness
17. Chapter 17: Concerning Cruelty and Clemency
18. Chapter 18: How Princes Should Keep Faith
19. Chapter 19: That One Should Avoid Contempt and Hatred
20. Chapter 20: Whether Fortresses and Other Devices Are Useful
21. Chapter 21: How a Prince Should Conduct Himself to Gain Renown
22. Chapter 22: Concerning the Secretaries of Princes
23. Chapter 23: How Flatterers Should Be Avoided
24. Chapter 24: Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States
25. Chapter 25: What Fortune Can Effect in Human Affairs
26. Chapter 26: An Exhortation to Liberate Italy
27. Supplement: Duke Valentino’s methods
28. Supplement: The life of Castruccio Castracani

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Niccolò Machiavelli · Translated by W. K. Marriott. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 1232. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.

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