Primary Source Document Name: The Prince

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Table of Contents

Epistle Dedicatory: Nicolaus Maclavellus ad Magnificum Laurentium Medicem

(Nicolò Machivelli to the Magnificent Lorenzo dei Medici)

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Chapter 1: Quot sint principatuum et quibus modis sins acquirantur

(Of how many kinds are principalities, and in what ways they are acquired)

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Chapter 2: De principatibus hereditariis

(Of hereditary principalities)

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Chapter 3: De principatibus mixtis

(Of mixed principalities)

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Chapter 4: Cur Darii regnum quod Alexander occupaverat a successoribus suis post Alexandri mortum non deficit

(Why the kingdom of Darius, which was occupied by Alexander, did not defect from his successors after Alexander’s death)

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Chapter 5: Quomodo administrandae sint civitates vel principatus, qui antequam occuparentur suis legibus vivebant

(In what way are to be administered the cities or principalities which, before being occupied, lived by their own laws)

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Chapter 6: De principatibus novis qui armis propriis et virtute acquiruntur

(Of the new principalities which are acquired with one’s own arms and virtue)

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Chapter 7: De principatibus novis qui alienis armis etfortuna acquiruntur

(Of new principalities that are acquired by means of the arms of others and by fortune)

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Chapter 8: De his qui per scelera ad principatum pervenere

(Of those who have come to princedom by iniquity)

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Chapter 9: De principatu civili

(Of the civil principality)

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Chapter 10: Quomodo omnium principatum vires perpendi debeant

(In what way the forces of all principalities must be measured)

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Chapter 11: De principatibus ecclesiasticis

(Of ecclesiastical principalities)

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Chapter 12: Quot sint genera militiae et de mercenaries militibus

(How many are the kinds of militia, and of mercenary soldiers)

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Chapter 13: De militibus auxiliaris, mixtis et propriis

(Of auxiliary soldiery, mixed and one’s own)

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Chapter 14: Quod principem deceat circa militiam

(What might pertain to a prince concerning the military)

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Chapter 15: De his rebus quibus homines et praesertim principes laudantur aut vituperantur

(Of those things for which men, and especially princes, are lauded or vilified)

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Chapter 16: De liberalitate et parsimonia

(Of liberality and parsimony)

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Chapter 17: De crudelitate et pietate, et an sit melius amari quam timeri, vel e contra

(Of cruelty and pity; and whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary)

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Chapter 18: Quomodo fides a principibus sit servanda

(In what way faith is to be kept by princes)

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Chapter 19: De contemptu et odiofugiendo

(On fleeing contempt and hatred)

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Chapter 20: An arces et multa alia quae cotidie a princibusfiunt utilia an inutilia sint

(Whether fortresses and many other things which everyday are done by princes are useful or useless)

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Chapter 21: Quod principem deceat ut egregius habeatur

(What is convenient to a prince that he might be esteemed)

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Chapter 22: De his quos a secretis principes habent

(Of the secretaries which princes have by them)

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Chapter 23: Quomodo adulatores sintfugiendi

(How flatterers are to be fled)

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Chapter 24: Cur Italiae principes regnum amiserunt

(Why the princes of Italy lost their states)

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Chapter 25: Quantum fortuna in rebus humanis possit, et quomodo illi sit occurrendum

(How powerful fortune in human things can be, and how it can be resisted)

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Chapter 26: Exhortatio ad capessendam Italiam libertatemque a barbaris vindicandam

(Exhortation to take Italy and, avenging, free her from the barbarians)

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