Nicolo Machiavelli

(Source: DeskTop BookShop 1994)

The Prince

Chapter Notes
Chapter 1
How many kinds of principalities there are, and by what means they are acquired.
Machiavelli Online Resources
-several critical essays and other links
Chapter 2
Concerning hereditary principalities
The NEH at Duke
-papers written by high school teachers at a Duke Seminar
Chapter 3
Concerning mixed principalities
Study Questions
Chapter 4
Why the kindom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel against the successors of Alexander at his death.
Machiavelli on War
Chapter 5
Concerning the way to govern cities of principalities which lived under their own laws before they were annexed.
Machiavelli Was Not Machiavellian
Chapter 6
Concerning new principalities which are acquired by one's own arms and ability
Modern Political Theory: Renaissance and Baroque
-A wonderfully huge collection of links about the Renaissance
Chapter 6
Concerning new principalities which are acquired either by the arms of others or by good fortune
Chapter 8
Concerning those who have obtained a principality by wickedness
Chapter 9
Concerning a civil principality
Chapter 10
Concerning the way in which the strength of all principalities ought to be measured
Chapter 11
Concerning ecclesiastical principalities
Chapter 12
How many kinds of soliery there are, and concerning mercenaries
Chapter 13
Concerning auxiliaries, mixed soldiery, and one's own
Chapter 14
That which concerns a prince on the subject of the art of war
Chapter 15
Concerning things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed
Chapter 16
Concerning liberality and meanness
Chapter 17
Concerning cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared
Chapter 18
Concerning the way in which princes should keep faith
Chapter 19
That one should avoid being despised and hated
Chapter 20
Are fortresses, and many other things to which princes often resort, advantageous or hurtful?
Chapter 21
How a prince should conduct himself so as to gain renown
Chapter 22
Concerning the secretaries of princes
Chapter 23
how flatterers should be avoided
Chapter 24
The princes of Italy have lost their states
Chapter 25
What fortune can effect in human affairs, and how to withstand her
Chapter 26
An exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians