Skip to main content

The Prince: The Prince

The Prince
The Prince
    • Notifications
    • Privacy
  • Project HomeThe Prince
  • Projects
  • Learn more about Manifold

Notes

Show the following:

  • Annotations
  • Resources
Search within:

Adjust appearance:

  • font
    Font style
  • color scheme
  • Margins
table of contents
  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Introduction
    1. Youth
    2. Office
    3. Literature and Death
  4. The Man and His Works
  5. The Prince
    1. Dedication
    2. I: How Many Kinds of Principalities There Are, and by What Means They Are Acquired
    3. II: Concerning Hereditary Principalities
    4. III: Concerning Mixed Principalities
    5. IV: Why the Kingdom of Darius, Conquered by Alexander, Did Not Rebel Against the Successors of Alexander at His Death
    6. V: Concerning the Way to Govern Cities or Principalities Which Lived Under Their Own Laws Before They Were Annexed
    7. VI: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired by One’s Own Arms and Ability
    8. VII: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired Either by the Arms of Others or by Good Fortune
    9. VIII: Concerning Those Who Have Obtained a Principality by Wickedness
    10. IX: Concerning a Civil Principality
    11. X: Concerning the Way in Which the Strength of All Principalities Ought to Be Measured
    12. XI: Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities
    13. XII: How Many Kinds of Soldiery There Are, and Concerning Mercenaries
    14. XIII: Concerning Auxiliaries, Mixed Soldiery, and One’s Own
    15. XIV: That Which Concerns a Prince on the Subject of the Art of War
    16. XV: Concerning Things for Which Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed
    17. XVI: Concerning Liberality and Meanness
    18. XVII: Concerning Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared
    19. XVIII: Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith
    20. XIX: That One Should Avoid Being Despised and Hated
    21. XX: Are Fortresses, and Many Other Things to Which Princes Often Resort, Advantageous or Hurtful?
    22. XXI: How a Prince Should Conduct Himself So as to Gain Renown
    23. XXII: Concerning the Secretaries of Princes
    24. XXIII: How Flatterers Should Be Avoided
    25. XXIV: Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States
    26. XXV: What Fortune Can Effect in Human Affairs and How to Withstand Her
    27. XXVI: An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians
  6. Endnotes
  7. Colophon
  8. Uncopyright

The Prince

Annotate

Next Chapter
Dedication
PreviousNext
The source text and artwork in this ebook edition are believed to be in the U.S. public domain. This ebook edition is released under the terms in the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, available at https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. For full license information see the Uncopyright file included at the end of this ebook.
Powered by Manifold Scholarship. Learn more at
Opens in new tab or windowmanifoldapp.org