The prince

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
Other Authors: Baker-Smith, Dominic
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: New York : Knopf, c1992.
Series:Everyman's library.
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Table of Contents:
  • How many kinds of principalities there are, and by what means they are acquired
  • Concerning hereditary principalities
  • Concerning mixed principalities
  • Why the Kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel aganist the successors of Alexander at his death
  • Concerning the way to govern cities or principalities which lived under their own laws before they were annexed
  • Concerning new principalities which are acquired by one's own arms and ability
  • Concerning new principalities which are acquired by the arms of others or by good fortune
  • Concerning those who have obtained a principality by wickedness
  • Concerning a civil principality
  • Concerning the way in which the strength of all principalities ought to be measured
  • Concerning ecclesiastical principalities
  • How many kinds of soldiery there are, and concerning mercenaries
  • Concerning auxiliaries, mixed soldiery, and one's own
  • That which concerns a prince on the subject of the art of war
  • Concerning things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed
  • Concerning liberality and meanness
  • Concerning cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared
  • Concerning the way in which princes should keep faith
  • That one should avoid being despised and hated
  • Are fortresses, and many other things to which princes resort, advantageous or hurtful?
  • How a prince should conduct himself so as to gain renown
  • Concerning the secretaries of princes
  • How flatterers should be avoided
  • Why the princes of Italy have lost their states
  • What fortune can effect in human affairs, and how to withstand her
  • Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians.