The Prince

Dedication

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

Concerning Hereditary Principalities

Concerning Mixed Principalities

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

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

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

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

Concerning Those Who Have Obtained a Principality by Wickedness

Concerning a Civil Principality

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

Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities

How Many Kinds of Soldiery There Are, and Concerning Mercenaries

Concerning Auxiliaries, Mixed Soldiery, and One’s Own

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

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

Concerning Liberality and Meanness

Concerning Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved than Feared

Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith

That One Should Avoid Being Despised and Hated

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

How a Prince Should Conduct Himself So as to Gain Renown

Concerning the Secretaries of Princes

How Flatterers Should Be Avoided

Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States

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

An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians