The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli


Table of Contents

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 - 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 - Containing the Secretaries of Princes

Chapter XXIII - How Flatterrs Should Be Avoided

Chapter XXIV - Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their State

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...

The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca


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