The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9788827802144
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

One of the most influential books on statecraft ever written, Niccolò Machiavelli's 1532 treatise The Prince invented modern political philosophy and gave the world the term Machiavellian. It was read by Spain's King Charles V and King Henry VIII of England and has been influential on world leaders for five centuries. The short but powerful guide outlines a pragmatic path for a prince to be successful, a formula for political victory that is direct and unemotional. The methodology has been called cold and cynical and yet The Prince captures a great deal of truth about human psychology.

Table of contents

• YOUTH — Aet. 1-25—1469-94
• OFFICE — Aet. 25-43—1494-1512
• LITERATURE AND DEATH — Aet. 43-58—1512-27
• THE MAN AND HIS WORKS
• DEDICATION
• THE PRINCE
• 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 — 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
• NICOLO MACHIAVELLI
• THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA
• CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI 1284-1328