The PrincePenguin, Peb 4, 2003 - 144 mga pahina Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccoló Machiavelli drew on his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideal but with a regime that would last, The Prince has become the bible of realpolitik, and it still retains its power to alarm and to instruct. In this edition, Machiavelli's tough-minded and pragmatic Italian is preserved in George Bull's clear, unambiguous translation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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Letter to the Magnificent Lorenzo de Medici | 3 |
How many kinds of principality there are and the ways in which they are acquired | 7 |
Composite principalities | 8 |
Why the kingdom of Darius conquered by Alexander did not rebel against his successors after his death | 15 |
How cities or principalities which lived under their own laws should be administered after being conquered | 18 |
New principalities acquired by ones own arms and prowess | 19 |
New principalities acquired with the help of fortune and foreign arms | 22 |
Those who come to power by crime | 28 |
Generosity and parsimony | 51 |
Cruelty and compassion and whether it is better to be loved than feared or the reverse | 53 |
XVIII How princes should honour their word | 56 |
The need to avoid contempt and hatred | 58 |
Whether fortresses and many of the other presentday expedients to which princes have recourse are useful or not | 67 |
How a prince must act to win honour | 71 |
A princes personal staff | 74 |
How flatterers must be shunned | 75 |
The constitutional principality | 32 |
How the strength of every principality should be measured | 35 |
Ecclesiastical principalities | 37 |
Military organization and mercenary troops | 40 |
Auxiliary composite and native troops | 44 |
How a prince should organize his militia | 47 |
The things for which men and especially princes are praised or blamed | 50 |
Why the Italian princes have lost their states | 77 |
How far human affairs are governed by fortune and how fortune can be opposed | 79 |
Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians | 82 |
Glossary of Proper Names | 86 |
Notes | 98 |
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