The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli, W. K. Marriott

• Publisher: Clydesdale
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781945186264
• eBook ISBN: 9781945186301
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our intellectual history through the words of the exceptional few.Widely acknowledged as Machiavelli's defining work, The Prince is an innovative and rich treatise marked by his political theories and the principles of leadership. Based upon his own experiences witnessing "the actions of great men" and the often immoral aspects that come with power, Machiavelli encouraged ambition amongst leaders—which was a break from the philosophy of other contemporary thinkers. The Prince identifies the aims of powerful leaders, which can help to justify the use of largely immoral means in their methods.With a new foreword by scholar Christopher Celenza, this essential work on politics contemplates leadership in a manner still relevant today. This lesson in autocratic rule will provide the reader with the author's rational approach to control and the contextualization for the term "Machiavellian."

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• 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
• 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
• THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA
• ENDNOTES