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THE PRINCE
by Nicolo Machiavelli
Translated by W.K. Marriott
Table of Contents:
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
THE PRINCE
CHAPTER 1. HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE
CHAPTER 2. CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES
CHAPTER 3. CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES
CHAPTER 4. WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 5. CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES
CHAPTER 6. CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED
CHAPTER 7. CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED
CHAPTER 8. CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINCIPALITY
CHAPTER 9. CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY
CHAPTER 10. CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH
CHAPTER 11. CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES
CHAPTER 12. HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE
CHAPTER 13. CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY
CHAPTER 14. THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE ON THE SUBJECT OF WAR
CHAPTER 15. CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES
CHAPTER 16. CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS
CHAPTER 17. CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY
CHAPTER 18. CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP
CHAPTER 19. THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED
CHAPTER 20. ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES
CHAPTER 21. HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN RENOWN
CHAPTER 22. CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
CHAPTER 23. HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
CHAPTER 24. WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES
CHAPTER 25. WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 26. AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS
DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS ADOPTED BY THE DUKE VALENTINO WHEN MURDERING
THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA