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The Prince(English edition)

Author:Niccolò Machiavelli

Publication date:2015-10-12

ISBN:1159004700250

Language:English

Abstract:

The Prince: The book discusses how monarchs should govern and maintain their states. The author thinks the army is the main foundation of all countries; monarchs should have their own armed forces, and should rely on violence, cruelty and immoral deeds to win. The prince should rule on principles of...
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The Prince: The book discusses how monarchs should govern and maintain their states. The author thinks the army is the main foundation of all countries; monarchs should have their own armed forces, and should rely on violence, cruelty and immoral deeds to win. The prince should rule on principles of force, and achieve their objectives unscrupulously. He uses a metaphor of a lion and a fox as examples of cunning and force. The Prince is considered to be the "Mafia Bible".

Book catalogue

  • Cover

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  • Información de Copyright

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  • THE PRINCE

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  • Translated by W. K. Marriott

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  • INTRODUCTION

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  • YOUTH — Aet. 1-25—1469-94

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  • OFFICE — Aet. 25-43—1494-1512

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  • LITERATURE AND DEATH — Aet. 43-58—1512-27

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  • THE MAN AND HIS WORKS

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  • DEDICATION

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  • THE PRINCE

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  • CHAPTER I — HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED

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  • CHAPTER II — CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES

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  • CHAPTER III — CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES

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  • CHAPTER IV — WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH

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  • CHAPTER V — CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES WHICH LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS BEFORE THEY WERE ANNEXED

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  • CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED BY ONE'S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY

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  • CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED EITHER BY THE ARMS OF OTHERS OR BY GOOD FORTUNE

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  • CHAPTER VIII — CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINCIPALITY BY WICKEDNESS

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  • CHAPTER IX — CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY

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  • CHAPTER X — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCIPALITIES OUGHT TO BE MEASURED

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  • CHAPTER XI — CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES

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  • CHAPTER XII — HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND CONCERNING MERCENARIES

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  • CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE'S OWN

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

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  • CHAPTER XV — CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED

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  • CHAPTER XVI — CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS

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  • CHAPTER XVII — CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED

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

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  • CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED

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  • CHAPTER XX — ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES OFTEN RESORT, ADVANTAGEOUS OR HURTFUL?

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

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  • CHAPTER XXII — CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES

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  • CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED

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  • CHAPTER XXIV — WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES

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  • CHAPTER XXV — WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AND HOW TO WITHSTAND HER

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  • CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS

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  • DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS ADOPTED BY THE DUKE VALENTINO WHEN MURDERING VITELLOZZO VITELLI, OLIVEROTTO DA FERMO, THE SIGNOR PAGOLO, AND THE DUKE DI GRAVINA ORSINI

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  • NICOLO MACHIAVELLI

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  • THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA

    40
  • CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI 1284-1328

    41

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