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The Prince ( Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes.
A practical guide for ruling by Niccolò Machiavelli, dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici. The book covers various topics, such as power politics, warcraft, popular goodwill, and the qualities of the prince, with a focus on Italy’s disunity.
Apr 12, 2024 · The Prince, political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513. A short treatise on how to acquire power, create a state, and keep it, The Prince represents Machiavelli’s effort to provide a guide for political action based on the lessons of history and his own experience as a foreign secretary in Florence.
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- HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED. All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities.
- CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES. I will leave out all discussion on republics, inasmuch as in another place I have written of them at length, and will address myself only to principalities.
- CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES. But the difficulties occur in a new principality. And firstly, if it be not entirely new, but is, as it were, a member of a state which, taken collectively, may be called composite, the changes arise chiefly from an inherent difficulty which there is in all new principalities; for men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules: wherein they are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse.
- WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH. Considering the difficulties which men have had to hold to a newly acquired state, some might wonder how, seeing that Alexander the Great became the master of Asia in a few years, and died whilst it was scarcely settled (whence it might appear reasonable that the whole empire would have rebelled), nevertheless his successors maintained themselves, and had to meet no other difficulty than that which arose among themselves from their own ambitions.
Apr 23, 2018 · Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527: Translator: Ricci, Luigi, 1842-1915: Uniform Title: Il Principe. English Title: The Prince Credits: Marc D’Hooghe Language: English: LoC Class: JC: Political science: Political theory: Subject: State, The -- Early works to 1800 Subject: Political science -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800 Subject: Political ...
Apr 23, 2018 · Title: The Prince. Author: Niccolò Machiavelli. Translator: Luigi Ricci. Release Date: April 23, 2018 [eBook #57037] [Most recently updated: November 16, 2022] Language: English. Character set encoding: UTF-8. Produced by: Marc D’Hooghe. *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE *** THE PRINCE. BY. NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI.
Apr 30, 2024 · Niccolò Machiavelli (born May 3, 1469, Florence [Italy]—died June 21, 1527, Florence) was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman, secretary of the Florentine republic, whose most famous work, The Prince (Il Principe), brought him a reputation as an atheist and an immoral cynic.
