The Prince
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The Prince

Second Edition

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eBook - ePub

The Prince

Second Edition

About this book

The most famous and important book on politics ever written

The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new materials added for this edition, make it the definitive version of The Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and those interested in the dark art of politics.

This revised edition of Mansfield's acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli's time.

"Of the other available [translations], that of Harvey C. Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability, as well as providing an excellent introduction and notes."—Clifford Orwin, The Wall Street Journal

"Mansfield's work . . . is worth acquiring as the best combination of accuracy and readability."—Choice

"There is good reason to assert that Machiavelli has met his match in Mansfield. . . . [He] is ready to read Machiavelli as he demands to be read—plainly and boldly, but also cautiously."—John Gueguen, The Sixteenth Century Journal

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. A Note on the Translation
  7. Chronology
  8. Map
  9. Dedicatory Letter
  10. I. How Many Are the Kinds of Principalities and in What Modes They Are Acquired
  11. II. Of Hereditary Principalities
  12. III. Of Mixed Principalities
  13. IV. Why the Kingdom of Darius Which Alexander Seized Did Not Rebel from His Successors after Alexander's Death
  14. V. How Cities or Principalities Which Lived by Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered
  15. VI. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired through One's Own Arms and Virtue
  16. VII. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired by Others' Arms and Fortune
  17. VIII. Of Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes
  18. IX. Of the Civil Principality
  19. X. In What Mode the Forces of All Principalities Should Be Measured
  20. XI. Of Ecclesiastical Principalities
  21. XII. How Many Kinds of Military There Are and Concerning Mercenary Soldiers
  22. XIII. Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and One's Own Soldiers
  23. XIV. What a Prince Should Do Regarding the Military
  24. XV. Of Those Things for Which Men and Especially Princes Are Praised or Blamed
  25. XVI. Of Liberality and Parsimony
  26. XVII. Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary
  27. XVIII. In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes
  28. XIX. Of Avoiding Contempt and Hatred
  29. XX. Whether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every Day Are Useful or Useless
  30. XXI. What a Prince Should Do to Be Held in Esteem
  31. XXII. Of Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries
  32. XXIII. In What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided
  33. XXIV. Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States
  34. XXV. How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed
  35. XXVI. Exhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians
  36. Appendix
  37. Machiavelli's Letter of December 10, 1513
  38. Glossary
  39. Notes
  40. Bibliography
  41. Index of Proper Names