Machiavelli: The Prince

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

Editor's note
Introduction
Principals events in Machiavelli's life
Bibliographical note
Translator's note
Map
Dedicatory letter
1. The different kinds of principality and how they are acquired
2. Hereditary principalities
3. Mixed principalities
4. Why the Kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death
5. How one should govern cities or principalities that, before being conquered, used to live under their own laws
6. New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability
7. New principalities acquired through the power of others and their favour
8. Those who become rulers through wicked means
9. The civil principality
10. How the strength of all principalities should be measured
11. Ecclesiastical principalities
12. The different types of army, and mercenary troops
13. Auxiliaries, mixed troop and negative troops
14. How a ruler should act concerning military matters
15. The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed
16. Generosity and meanness
17. Cruelty and mercifulness
and whether it is better to be loved or feared
18. How rulers should keep their promises
19. How contempt and hatred should be avoided
20. whether building fortresses, and many other things that rulers frequently do, are useful or not
21. how a ruler should act in order to gain reputation
22. The secretaries of rulers
23. How flatterers should be shunned
24. Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states
25. How much power fortune has over human affairs, and how it should be resisted
226. Exhortation to liberate Italy from the Barbarian yoke
Appendixes
Bibliographical notes
Index of subjects
Index of proper names.

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Machiavelli: The Prince

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