Youth

Office

Literature and Death

Dedication

I: How Many Kinds of Principalities There Are, and by What Means They Are Acquired

II: Concerning Hereditary Principalities

III: Concerning Mixed Principalities

IV: Why the Kingdom of Darius, Conquered by Alexander, Did Not Rebel Against the Successors of Alexander at His Death

V: Concerning the Way to Govern Cities or Principalities Which Lived Under Their Own Laws Before They Were Annexed

VI: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired by One’s Own Arms and Ability

VII: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired Either by the Arms of Others or by Good Fortune

VIII: Concerning Those Who Have Obtained a Principality by Wickedness

IX: Concerning a Civil Principality

X: Concerning the Way in Which the Strength of All Principalities Ought to Be Measured

XI: Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities

XII: How Many Kinds of Soldiery There Are, and Concerning Mercenaries

XIII: Concerning Auxiliaries, Mixed Soldiery, and One’s Own

XIV: That Which Concerns a Prince on the Subject of the Art of War

XV: Concerning Things for Which Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed

XVI: Concerning Liberality and Meanness

XVII: Concerning Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared

XVIII: Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith

XIX: That One Should Avoid Being Despised and Hated

XX: Are Fortresses, and Many Other Things to Which Princes Often Resort, Advantageous or Hurtful?

XXI: How a Prince Should Conduct Himself So as to Gain Renown

XXII: Concerning the Secretaries of Princes

XXIII: How Flatterers Should Be Avoided

XXIV: Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States

XXV: What Fortune Can Effect in Human Affairs and How to Withstand Her

XXVI: An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians