THE PRINCE

by Nicolo Machiavelli

Translated by W. K. Marriott

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 I   HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE

CHAPTER II   CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES

CHAPTER III   CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES

CHAPTER IV   WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER

CHAPTER V   CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES

CHAPTER VI   CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED

CHAPTER VII   CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED

CHAPTER VIII   CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINCIPALITY

CHAPTER IX   CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY

CHAPTER X   CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH

CHAPTER XI   CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES

CHAPTER XII   HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE

CHAPTER XIII   CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY

CHAPTER XIV   THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE ON THE SUBJECT OF WAR

CHAPTER XV   CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES

CHAPTER XVI   CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS

CHAPTER XVII   CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY

CHAPTER XVIII(*)   CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP

CHAPTER XIX   THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED

CHAPTER XX   ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES

CHAPTER XXI   HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN RENOWN

CHAPTER XXII   CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES

CHAPTER XXIII   HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED

CHAPTER XXIV   WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES

CHAPTER XXV   WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS

CHAPTER XXVI   AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS


DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS ADOPTED BY THE DUKE VALENTINO WHEN MURDERING  

THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO