Table of contents :

Cover......Page 1

Title Page......Page 2

Copyright......Page 3

Table of Contents......Page 4

Introduction......Page 6

A Note on the Translation......Page 24

Map......Page 27

THE PRINCE......Page 28

Dedicatory Letter......Page 30

I. How Many Are the Kinds of Principalities and in What Modes They Are Acquired......Page 32

II. Of Hereditary Principalities......Page 33

III. Of Mixed Principalities......Page 34

IV. Why the Kingdom of Darius Which Alexander Seized Did Not Rebel from His Successors after Alexander's Death......Page 43

V. How Cities or Principalities Which Lived by Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered......Page 47

VI. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired through One's Own Arms and Virtue......Page 48

VII. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired by Others' Arms and Fortune......Page 52

VIII. Of Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes......Page 61

IX. Of the Civil Principality......Page 65

X. In What Mode the Forces of All Principalities Should Be Measured......Page 69

XI. Of Ecclesiastical Principalities......Page 72

XII. How Many Kinds of Military There Are and Concerning Mercenary Soldiers......Page 75

XIII. Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and One's Own Soldiers......Page 81

XIV. What a Prince Should Do Regarding the Military......Page 85

XV. Of Those Things for Which Men and Especially Princes Are Praised or Blamed......Page 88

XVI. Of Liberality and Parsimony......Page 89

XVII. Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary......Page 92

XVIII. In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes......Page 95

XIX. Of Avoiding Contempt and Hatred......Page 98

XX. Whether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every Day Are Useful or Useless......Page 110

XXI. What a Prince Should Do to Be Held in Esteem......Page 114

XXII. Of Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries......Page 119

XXIII. In What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided......Page 120

XXIV. Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States......Page 123

XV. How Much Fortune Can Do In Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed......Page 125

XVI. Exhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians......Page 128

Appendix......Page 134

