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The Prince

Contents

  • Historical Introduction
  • Translator’s Note
  • The Text of The Prince
  • Backgrounds
    • Map: North Central Italy in Machiavelli’s Time
  • MACHIAVELLI THE WORKING DIPLOMAT
    • Niccolò Machiavelli … [The Legation to Cesare Borgia]
  • MACHIAVELLI THE DEMOCRAT
    • Niccolò Machiavelli … From Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius
  • MACHIAVELLI THE MORALIST
    • Niccolò Machiavelli … The Exhortation to Penitence
  • MACHIAVELLI THE CORRESPONDENT
    • Niccolò Machiavelli … From His Private Letters
  • MACHIAVELLI THE POET
    • Niccolò Machiavelli … From Carnival Songs
    • On Occasion
    • The Death of Piero Soderini
  • Interpretations
    • J. R. Hale … The Setting of The Prince: 1513-1514
    • Felix Gilbert … [Fortune, Necessity, Virt˜]
    • Ernst Cassirer … Implications of the New Theory of the State
    • Sheldon S. Wolin … [The Economy of Violence]
    • Federico Chabod … Machiavelli's Method and Style
    • J. H. Whitfield … [Big Words, Exact Meanings]
    • Isaiah Berlin … The Question of Machiavelli
    • Robert M. Adams … The Rise, Proliferation, and Degradation of Machiavellism: An Outline
  • Marginalia
    • Friedrich Nietzsche … [Morals as Fossilized Violence]
    • Pasquale Villari … [Learning Diplomacy the Hard Way]
    • Francesco Guicciardini … From Ricordi
    • Traiano Boccalini … From News Bulletins from Parnassus
    • Norman Douglas … From South Wind
    • J. H. Whitfield … [Big Words, Exact Meanings]
    • Robert M. Adams … Necessit·/Fortuna
    • Epigrams, Maxims, and Observations from the Machiavellians
    • Tuscan Sayings

  • Selected Bibliography

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