Machiavelli: The PrinceIn his introduction to this new translation by Russell Price, Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries. This new edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as well as biographical notes on characters in the text. |
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The different kinds of principality and how they are acquired | 5 |
Hereditary principalities | 6 |
Why the Kingdom of Darius conquered by Alexander did not rebel against his successors after Alexanders death | 15 |
How one should govern cities or principalities that before being conquered used to live under their own laws | 17 |
New principalities acquired by ones own arms and ability | 19 |
New principalities acquired through the power of others and their favour | 22 |
Those who become rulers through wicked means | 30 |
The civil principality | 34 |
Cruelty and mercifulness and whether it is better to be loved or feared | 58 |
How rulers should keep their promises | 61 |
How contempt and hatred should be avoided | 63 |
Whether building fortresses and many other things that rulers frequently do are useful or not | 72 |
How a ruler should act in order to gain reputation | 76 |
The secretaries of rulers | 80 |
How flatterers should be shunned | 81 |
Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states | 83 |
How the strength of all principalities should be measured | 37 |
Ecclesiastical principalities | 39 |
The different types of army and mercenary troops | 42 |
Auxiliaries mixed troops and native troops | 48 |
How a ruler should act concerning military matters | 51 |
The things for which men and especially rulers are praised or blamed | 54 |
Generosity and meanness | 55 |
How much power fortune has over human affairs and how it should be resisted | 84 |
Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarian yoke | 87 |
Letters relevant to The Prince | 93 |
Notes on the vocabulary of The Prince | 100 |
Biographical notes | 114 |
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Page 3 - Highness within the compass of a small volume: and although I deem this work unworthy of Your Highness's acceptance, yet my confidence in your humanity assures me that you will receive it with favour, knowing that it is not in my power to offer you a greater gift than that of enabling you to understand in a very short time all those things which I have learnt at the cost of privation and danger in the course of many years.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Machiavelli: The Prince Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought |
| Auteur | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Rédacteurs | Quentin Skinner, Russell Price |
| Traduit par | Russell Price |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0521349931, 9780521349932 |
| Longueur | 152 pages |
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