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The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli ; translated with notes by George Bull ; introduction by Anthony Grafton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Penguin classicsPublisher: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Reissued with revisionsDescription: xxxiv, 106 pages : map ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0140449159
  • 9780140449150
  • 0140447520
  • 9780140447521
Uniform titles:
  • Principe. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
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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Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power

The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccoló Machiavelli drew on his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideal but with a regime that would last, The Prince has become the bible of realpolitik, and it still retains its power to alarm and to instruct. In this edition, Machiavelli's tough-minded and pragmatic Italian is preserved in George Bull's clear, unambiguous translation.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

This translation originally published : 1961.

Translation of: Il principe. Roma, 1531.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxi).

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.

Translated from the Italian.

The classic handbook of statecraft written by an Italian nobleman recommends guile and craftiness to attain and maintain political power.

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