Machiavelli: The Prince

, by Niccolo Machiavelli , Edited by Quentin Skinner , Russell Price

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ISBN: 9780521349932 | 0521349931
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/28/1988

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Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.

Editors' note

vii

(2)

Introduction

(16)

Principal events in Machiavelli's life

xxv

(4)

Bibliographical note

xxix

(3)

Translator's note

xxxii

(4)

Map: northern and central Italy, c. 1500

xxxvi

Dedicatory letter: Niccolo Machiavelli to His Magnificence Lorenzo de' Medici

(2)

I The different kinds of principality and how they are acquired

(1)

II Hereditary principalities

(1)

III Mixed principalities

(9)

IV Why the Kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death

(2)

V How one should govern cities or principalities that, before being conquered, used to live under their own laws

(2)

VI New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability

(3)

VII New principalities acquired through the power of others and their favour

(8)

VIII Those who become rulers through wicked means

(4)

IX The civil principality

(3)

X How the strength of all principalities should be measured

(2)

XI Ecclesiastical principalities

(3)

XII The different types of army, and mercenary troops

(6)

XIII Auxiliaries, mixed troops and native troops

(3)

XIV How a ruler should act concerning military matters

(3)

XV The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed

(1)

XVI Generosity and meanness

(3)

XVII Cruelty and mercifulness; and whether it is better to be loved or feared

(3)

XVIII How rulers should keep their promises

(2)

XIX How contempt and hatred should be avoided

(9)

XX Whether building fortresses, and many other things that rulers frequently do, are useful or not

(4)

XXI How a ruler should act in order to gain reputation

(4)

XXII The secretaries of rulers

(1)

XXIII How flatterers should be shunned

(2)

XXIV Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states

(1)

XXV How much power fortune has over human affairs, and how it should be resisted

(3)

XXVI Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarian yoke

(6)

Appendix A Letters relevant to The Prince

(7)

Appendix B Notes on the vocabulary of The Prince

100

(14)

Biographical notes

114

(27)

Index of subjects

141

(7)

Index of proper names

148

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Machiavelli: The Prince

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