The Annotated Prince

The Annotated The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

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 * Introduction to the Annotated Version

Contents

 * Title page
 * Preface
 * Introduction
 * The Man and His Work


 * I. How many kinds of principalities there are, and by what means they are acquired
 * II. Concerning hereditary principalities
 * III. Concerning mixed principalities
 * IV. Why the kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel against the successors of Alexander at his death
 * V. Concerning the way to govern cities or principalities which lived under their own laws before they were annexed
 * VI. Concerning new principalities which are acquired by one's own arms and ability
 * VII. Concerning new principalities which are acquired either by the arms of others or by good fortune
 * VIII. Concerning those who have obtained a principality by wickedness
 * IX. Concerning a civil principality
 * X. Concerning the way in which the strength of all principalities ought to be measured
 * XI. Concerning ecclesiastical principalities
 * XII How many kinds of soldiery there are, and concerning mercenaries
 * XIII. Concerning auxiliaries, mixed soldiery, and one's own
 * XIV. That which concerns a prince on the subject of the art of war
 * XV. Concerning things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed
 * XVI. Concerning liberality and meanness
 * XVII. Concerning cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared
 * XVIII. Concerning the way in which princes should keep faith
 * XIX. That one should avoid being despised and hated
 * XX. Are fortresses, and many other things to which princes often resort,  advantageous or hurtful?
 * XXI. How a prince should conduct himself so as to gain renown
 * XXII. Concerning the secretaries of princes
 * XXIII. How flatterers should be avoided
 * XXIV. Why the princes of Italy have lost their states
 * XXV. What fortune can effect in human affairs and how to withstand her
 * XXVI. An exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians

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 * Glossary of Proper Names