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The Prince.
The world's most influential-and controversial-treatise on politicsComposed in exile and published posthumously, The Prince is Niccolò Machiavelli's legacy and the foundation of modern political theory. Drawing on his firsthand experiences as a diplomat and military commander in the Flore...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newburyport :
Open Road Media,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I
- HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED; CHAPTER II
- CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES; CHAPTER III
- CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES; CHAPTER IV
- WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH; CHAPTER V
- CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES THAT LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS BEFORE THEY WERE ANNEXED; CHAPTER VI
- CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES, WHICH ARE ACQUIRED BY ONE'S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY.
- Chapter vii
- concerning new principalities, which are acquired either by the arms of others or by good fortunechapter viii
- concerning those who have obtained a principality by wickedness; chapter ix
- concerning a civil principality; chapter x
- concerning the way in which the strength of all principalities ought to be measured; chapter xi
- concerning ecclesiastical principalities; chapter xii
- how many kinds of soldiery there are, and concerning mercenaries; chapter xiii
- concerning auxiliaries, mixed soldiery, and one's own.
- Chapter xiv
- that which concerns a prince on the subject of the art of warchapter xv
- concerning things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed; chapter xvi
- concerning liberality and meanness; chapter xvii
- concerning cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared; chapter xviii
- concerning the way in which princes should keep faith; chapter xix
- that one should avoid being despised and hated; chapter xx
- are fortresses, and many other things to which princes often resort, advantageous or hurtful?
- Chapter xxi
- how a prince should conduct himself so as to gain renownchapter xxii
- concerning the secretaries of princes; chapter xxiii
- how flatterers should be avoided; chapter xxiv
- why the princes of italy have lost their states; chapter xxv
- what fortune can effect in human affairs and how to withstand her; chapter xxvi
- an exhortation to liberate italy from the barbarians; description of the methods adopted by the duke valentino when murdering vitellozzo vitelli, oliverotto da fermo, the signor pagolo, and the duke di gravina orsini; the life of castruccio castracani of lucca.