Machiavelli: The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli , Edited by Quentin Skinner , Russell PriceFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1989-10-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.
Table of Contents
| Editor's note | |
| Introduction | |
| Principals events in Machiavelli's life | |
| Bibliographical note | |
| Translator's note | |
| Map | |
| Dedicatory letter | |
| 1. The different kinds of principality and how they are acquired | |
| 2. Hereditary principalities | |
| 3. Mixed principalities | |
| 4. Why the Kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death | |
| 5. How one should govern cities or principalities that, before being conquered, used to live under their own laws | |
| 6. New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability | |
| 7. New principalities acquired through the power of others and their favour | |
| 8. Those who become rulers through wicked means | |
| 9. The civil principality | |
| 10. How the strength of all principalities should be measured | |
| 11. Ecclesiastical principalities | |
| 12. The different types of army, and mercenary troops | |
| 13. Auxiliaries, mixed troop and negative troops | |
| 14. How a ruler should act concerning military matters | |
| 15. The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed | |
| 16. Generosity and meanness | |
| 17. Cruelty and mercifulness | |
| and whether it is better to be loved or feared | |
| 18. How rulers should keep their promises | |
| 19. How contempt and hatred should be avoided | |
| 20. whether building fortresses, and many other things that rulers frequently do, are useful or not | |
| 21. how a ruler should act in order to gain reputation | |
| 22. The secretaries of rulers | |
| 23. How flatterers should be shunned | |
| 24. Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states | |
| 25. How much power fortune has over human affairs, and how it should be resisted | |
| 226. Exhortation to liberate Italy from the Barbarian yoke | |
| Appendixes | |
| Bibliographical notes | |
| Index of subjects | |
| Index of proper names. |
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