(Source: DeskTop BookShop 1994)
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| 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 |
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| Chapter 8 Concerning those who have obtained a principality by wickedness |
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| Chapter 9 Concerning a civil principality |
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| Chapter 10 Concerning the way in which the strength of all principalities ought to be measured |
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| Chapter 11 Concerning ecclesiastical principalities |
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| Chapter 12 How many kinds of soliery there are, and concerning mercenaries |
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| Chapter 13 Concerning auxiliaries, mixed soldiery, and one's own |
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| Chapter 14 That which concerns a prince on the subject of the art of war |
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| Chapter 15 Concerning things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed |
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| Chapter 16 Concerning liberality and meanness |
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| Chapter 17 Concerning cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared |
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| Chapter 18 Concerning the way in which princes should keep faith |
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| Chapter 19 That one should avoid being despised and hated |
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| Chapter 20 Are fortresses, and many other things to which princes often resort, advantageous or hurtful? |
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| Chapter 21 How a prince should conduct himself so as to gain renown |
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| Chapter 22 Concerning the secretaries of princes |
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| Chapter 23 how flatterers should be avoided |
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| Chapter 24 The princes of Italy have lost their states |
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| Chapter 25 What fortune can effect in human affairs, and how to withstand her |
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| Chapter 26 An exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians |