The Prince
Edition: Bantam Classic reissue
Publisher: Bantam Dell; Random House
Published: January 2003
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: Il Principe
Format: Paperback (Mass Market)
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780553212785
Copyright date: 1966
First sentence: Those who wish to win favor with a prince customarily offer him those things which they hold most precious or which they see him most delight in.
Description: Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince... a king...a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic. The prince he envisioned would be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral values; his prince would be man and beast, fox and lion. Today, this small sixteenth-century masterpiece has become essential reading for every student of government, and is the ultimate book on power politics.
Notes: This Bantam Classic edition of The Prince includes selections from Machiavelli's Discourses as well as an introduction and notes by the translator, Daniel Donno. In front, there is a map of Italy at the end of the Fifteenth Century showing Florentine growth.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: The Prince
pagenum: 13; label: Chapter 1
title: The Kinds of Principalities and the Means by Which They Are Acquired
pagenum: 16; label: Chapter 2
title: Hereditary Principalities
pagenum: 17; label: Chapter 3
title: Mixed Principalities
pagenum: 18; label: Chapter 4
title: Why Alexander's Successors Were Able to Keep Possession of Darius' Kingdom after Alexander's Death
pagenum: 25; label: Chapter 5
title: How to Govern Cities and Principalities That, Prior to Being Occupied, Lived Under Their Own Laws
pagenum: 28; label: Chapter 6
title: Concerning New Principalities Acquired by One's Own Arms and Ability
pagenum: 29; label: Chapter 7
title: Concerning New Principalities Acquired with the Arms and Fortunes of Others
pagenum: 32; label: Chapter 8
title: Concerning Those Who Become Princes by Evil Means
pagenum: 39; label: Chapter 9
title: Concerning the Civil Principality
pagenum: 43; label: Chapter 10
title: How the Strength of All Principalities Should Be Measured
pagenum: 47; label: Chapter 11
title: Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities
pagenum: 49; label: Chapter 12
title: Concerning Various Kinds of Troops, and Especially Mercenaries
pagenum: 51; label: Chapter 13
title: Concerning Auxiliary, Mixed, and Native Forces
pagenum: 56; label: Chapter 14
title: A Prince's Concern in Military Matters
pagenum: 59; label: Chapter 15
title: Concerning Things for Which Men, and Princes Especially, Are Praised or Censured
pagenum: 61; label: Chapter 16
title: Concerning Liberality and Parsimony
pagenum: 63; label: Chapter 17
title: Concerning Cruelty: Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than to Be Feared, or the Reverse
pagenum: 65; label: Chapter 18
title: In What Way Princes Should Keep Their Word
pagenum: 68; label: Chapter 19
title: How to Avoid Contempt and Hatred
pagenum: 70; label: Chapter 20
title: Whether Fortresses and Many Other Expedients That Princes Commonly Employ Are Useful or Not
pagenum: 79; label: Chapter 21
title: What a Prince Must Do to Be Esteemed
pagenum: 83; label: Chapter 22
title: Concerning the Prince's Ministers
pagenum: 86; label: Chapter 23
title: How to Avoid Flatterers
pagenum: 88; label: Chapter 24
title: Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States
pagenum: 89; label: Chapter 25
title: Concerning the Influence of Fortune in Human Affairs, and the Manner in Which It Is to Be Resisted
pagenum: 91; label: Chapter 26
title: An Exhortation to Free Italy from the Hands of the Barbarians
pagenum: 94; title: Discourses Upon the First Ten Books of Titus Livy
pagenum: 99; label: Book One
pagenum: 101; title: 2. Of the Various Kinds of States and of What Kind the Roman Republic Was
pagenum: 101; title: 3. The Events That Led to the Creation of the Tribunes of the Plebs, by Which the Roman Republic Became More Perfect
pagenum: 106; title: 4. That the Disorders Between the Plebs and the Senate Made the Roman Republic Strong and Free
pagenum: 107; title: 10. Founders of Republics and Kingdoms Are As Much to Be Praised As Founders of Tyrannies Are to Be Censured
pagenum: 109; title: 11. On the Religion of the Romans
pagenum: 112; title: 12. The Importance with Which Religion Must Be Regarded and How Italy, Lacking It, Thanks to the Church of Rome, Has Been Ruined
pagenum: 115; title: 58. The Multitude Is Wiser and More Constant Than a Prince
pagenum: 118; label: Book Two
pagenum: 123; title: 2. The People the Romans Had to Fight, and How Obstinately They Defended Their Freedom
pagenum: 123; label: Book Three
pagenum: 129; title: 21. How It Happened That Hannibal Gained the Same Results in Italy As Scipio Did in Spain by Contrary Means
pagenum: 129; title: 41. That One's Country Ought to Be Defended, Whether with Shame or Glory, by Whatever Means Possible
pagenum: 131; label: Chronology
pagenum: 133; label: Notes to the Prince
pagenum: 135; label: Notes to the Discourses
pagenum: 155; label: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 159