Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

Introduction
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 CASTRACANI OF LUCCA

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