Ecclesiastical Principalities, 299
CHAP. 12.
How many sorts of Military discipline there be; and touching mercenary
soldiers, 302
CHAP. 13.
Of Auxiliary Soldiers, mixt and natives, 307
CHAP. 14.
What belongs to the Prince touching military discipline, 310
CHAP. 15.
Of those things in respect whereof men, and especially Princes are
prais'd or disprais'd, 313
CHAP. 16.
Of Liberality and Miserableness, 315
CHAP. 17.
Of Cruelty and Clemency, and whether it is better to be belov'd or
feared, 318
CHAP. 18.
In what manner Princes ought to keep their word, 321
CHAP. 19.
That Princes should take a care not to incur contempt or hatred, 325
CHAP. 20.
Whether the Citadels and many other things, which Princes make use of,
are profitable or dammageable, 335
CHAP. 21.
How a Prince ought to behave himself to gain reputation, 339
CHAP. 22.
Touching Princes Secretaries, 343
CHAP. 23.
That Flatterers are to be avoyded, 344
CHAP. 24.
Wherefore the Princes of Italy have lost their States, 347
CHAP. 25.
How great power Fortune hath in humane affairs, and what means there is
to resist it, 349
CHAP. 26.
An exhortation to free Italy from the Barbarions, 353
THE PRINCE
Written by
NICHOLAS MACHIAVELLI,
Secretary and Citizen of Florence.
CHAP. I
How many sorts of Principalities there are, and how many wayes they are
attained to.
All States, all Dominions that have had, or now have rule over men, have
been and are, either Republiques or Principalities. Principalities are
either hereditary, whereof they of the blood of the Lord thereof have
long time been Princes; or else they are new; and those that are new,
are either all new, as was the Dutchy of Millan to Francis Sforce; or
are as members adjoyned to the hereditary State of the Prince that gains
it; as the Kingdom of Naples is to the King of Spain. These Dominions so
gotten, are accustomed either to live under a Prince, or to enjoy their
liberty; and are made conquest of, either with others forces, or ones
own, either by fortune, or by valor.
CHAP. II
Of Hereditary Principalities.
I will not here discourse of Republiques, because I have other where
treated of them at large: I will apply my self only to a Principality,
and proceed, while I weave this web, by arguing thereupon, how these
Principallities can be governed and maintained. I say then that in
States of inheritance, and
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