THE PRINCE BY NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

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THE PRINCE BY NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

DEDICATION

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

CHAPTER I OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF PRINCEDOM, AND OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY ARE ACQUIRED

CHAPTER II OF HEREDITARY PRINCEDOMS

CHAPTER III OF MIXED PRINCEDOMS

CHAPTER IV WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT, ON ALEXANDER'S DEATH, REBEL AGAINST HIS SUCCESSORS

CHAPTER V HOW CITIES OR PROVINCES WHICH BEFORE THEIR ACQUISITION HAVE LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS ARE TO BE GOVERNED

CHAPTER VI OF NEW PRINCEDOMS WHICH A PRINCE ACQUIRES WITH HIS OWN ARMS AND BY MERIT

CHAPTER VII OF NEW PRINCEDOMS ACQUIRED BY THE AID OF OTHERS AND BY GOOD FORTUNE

CHAPTER VIII OF THOSE WHO BY THEIR CRIMES COME TO BE PRINCES

CHAPTER IX OF THE CIVIL PRINCEDOM

CHAPTER X HOW THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCEDOMS SHOULD BE MEASURED

CHAPTER XI OF ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCEDOMS

CHAPTER XII HOW MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SOLDIERS THERE ARE,AND OF MERCENARIES

CHAPTER XIII OF AUXILIARY, MIXED, AND NATIONAL ARMS

CHAPTER XIV OF THE DUTY OF A PRINCE IN RESPECT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS

CHAPTER XV OF THE QUALITIES IN RESPECT OF WHICH MEN,AND MOST OF ALL PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OF BLAMED

CHAPTER XVI OF LIBERALITY AND MISERLINESS

CHAPTER XVII OF CRUSLTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED OR FEARED

CHAPTER XVIII HOW PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH

CHAPTER XIX THAT A PRINCE SHOULD SEEK TO ESCAPE CONTEMPT AND HATRED

CHAPTER XX WHETHER FORTRESSES, AND CERTAIN OTHER EXEDIE-NTS TO WHICH PRINCES OFTEN HAVE RECOURSE, ARE PROFITABLE OR HURTFUL

CHAPTER XXI HOW A PRINCE SHOULD BEAR HIMSELF SO AS TO ACQUIRE REPUTATION

CHAPTER XXII OF THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES

CHAPTER XXIII THAT FLATTERERS SHOULD BE SHUNED

CHAPTER XXIV WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES

CHAPTER XXV WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS,AND HOW SHE MAY BE WITHSTOOD

CHAPTER XXVI AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS MORE

UTOPIA

THE SECOND BOOK

THE NINETY-FIVE THESES

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

INTRODUCTORY LETTER

THE NINETY-FIVE THESES

PROTESTATIOM

DEDICATORY LETTER

ADDRESS TO THE NOBILITY

INTRODUCTION

THE THREE WALLS OF THE ROMANISTS

(a) THE FIRST WALL

(b) THE SECOND WALL

(c) THE THIRD WALL

OF THE MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE COUNCILS

TWENTY-SEVEN ARTICLES RESPECTING THE REFORMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN ESTATE

CONCERNING CHRISTIAN LIBERTY

LETTER OF MARTIN LUTHER TO POPE LEO X

CONCERNING CHRISTIAN LIBERTY

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