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DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226500508.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This revised edition of Mansfield's acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli's time.
"Of the other available [translations], that of Harvey C. Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability, as well as providing an excellent introduction and notes."—Clifford Orwin, The Wall Street Journal
"Mansfield's work . . . is worth acquiring as the best combination of accuracy and readability."—Choice
"There is good reason to assert that Machiavelli has met his match in Mansfield. . . . [He] is ready to read Machiavelli as he demands to be read—plainly and boldly, but also cautiously."—John Gueguen, The Sixteenth Century Journal
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was a diplomat, politician, and philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. Modern political philosophy and political science is founded on Machiavelli's writings. He served for many years as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. When the Medicis came to power, he was imprisoned and then retired to the writing of his works of political philosophy.TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
A Note on the Translation
Chronology
Map
The Prince
Dedicatory Letter
I. How Many Are the Kinds of Principalities and in What Modes They Are Acquired
II. Of Hereditary Principalities
III. Of Mixed Principalities
IV. Why the Kingdom of Darius Which Alexander Seized Did Not Rebel from His Successors after Alexander's Death
V. How Cities or Principalities Which Lived by Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered
VII. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired by Others' Arms and Fortune
VI. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired through One's Own Arms and Virtue
VIII. Of Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes
IX. Of the Civil Principality
X. In What Mode the Forces of All Principalities Should Be Measured
XI. Of Ecclesiastical Principalities
XII. How Many Kinds of Military There Are and Concerning Mercenary Soldiers
XIII. Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and One's Own Soldiers
XIV. What a Prince Should Do Regarding the Military
XV. Of Those Things for Which Men and Especially Princes Are Praised or Blamed
XVI. Of Liberality and Parsimony
XVII. Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary
XVIII. In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes
XIX. Of Avoiding Contempt and Hatred
XX. Whether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every- Day Are Useful or Useless
XXI. What a Prince Should Do to Be Held in Esteem
XXII. Of Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries
XXIII. In What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided
XXIV. Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States
XXV. How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed
XXVI. Exhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians
Appendix: Machiavelli's Letter of December 10, 1513
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Proper Names