The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli; translated with an introduction by George Bull.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1999. Edition: New edDescription: 160 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 0140447520; 9780140449150Subject(s): Political science | Political ethicsDDC classification: 324.22 LOC classification: JC143 | .M38 1999bOnline resources: WorldCat details | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Translated from the Italian.
TOC Chronology --
Map --
Introduction / Anthony Grafton --
Further reading --
Translator's note --
The prince --
Letter to the magnificent Lorenzo dé Medici --
I. How many kinds of principality there are and the ways in which they are acquired --
II. Hereditary principalities --
III. Composite principalities --
IV. Why the kingdom of Darius conquered by Alexander did not rebel against his successors after his death --
V. How cities or principalities which lived under their own laws should be administered after being conquered --
VI. New principalities acquired by one's own arms and prowess --
VII. New principalities acquired with the help of fortune and foreign arms --
VIII. Those who come to power by crime --
IX. The constitutional principality --
X. How the strength of every principality should me measured --
XI. Ecclesiastical principalities --
XII. Military organization and mercenary troops --
XIII. Auxiliary, composite, and native troops --
XIV. How a prince should organize his militia --
XV. The things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed --
XVI. Generosity and parsimony --
XVII. Cruelty and compassions ; and whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse --
XVIII. How princes should honour their word --
XIX. The need to avoid contempt and hatred --
XX. Whether fortresses and many of the other present-day expedients to which princes have recourse are useful or not --
XXI. How a prince must act to win honour --
XXII. A prince's personal staff --
XXIII. How flatterers must be shunned --
XXIV. Why the Italian princes have lost their states --
XXV. How far human affairs are governed by fortune, an dhow fortune can be opposed --
XXVI. Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians --
Glossary of proper names.
Summary:
The classic handbook of statecraft written by an Italian nobleman recommends guile and craftiness to attain and maintain political power.
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