The prince / Bantam Classic ed.

Table Of Contents:
Introduction 1(11)

The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli to the Magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici 12(1)

I The Kinds of Principalities and the Means by Which They Are Acquired 13(1)

II Hereditary Principalities 13(1)

III Mixed Principalities 14(7)

IV Why Alexander's Successors Were Able to Keep Possession of Darius' Kingdom after Alexander's Death 21(3)

V How to Govern Cities and Principalities That, Prior to Being Occupied, Lived Under Their Own Laws 24(1)

VI Concerning New Principalities Acquired by One's Own Arms and Ability 25(3)

VII Concerning New Principalities Acquired with the Arms and Fortunes of Others 28(7)

VIII Concerning Those Who Become Princes by Evil Means 35(4)

IX Concerning the Civil Principality 39(3)

X How the Strength of All Principalities Should Be Measured 42(2)

XI Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities 44(2)

XII Concerning Various Kinds of Troops, and Especially Mercenaries 46(4)

XIII Concerning Auxiliary, Mixed, and Native Forces 50(3)

XIV A Prince's Concern in Military Matters 53(3)

XV Concerning Things for Which Men, and Princes Especially, Are Praised or Censured 56(1)

XVI Concerning Liberality and Parsimony 57(2)

XVII Concerning Cruelty: Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than to Be Feared, or the Reverse 59(3)

XVIII In What Way Princes Should Keep Their Word 62(2)

XIX How to Avoid Contempt and Hatred 64(9)

XX Whether Fortresses and Many Other Expedients That Princes Commonly Employ Are Useful or Not 73(3)

XXI What a Prince Must Do to Be Esteemed 76(3)

XXII Concerning the Prince's Ministers 79(2)

XXIII How to Avoid Flatterers 81(1)

XXIV Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States 82(2)

XXV Concerning the Influence of Fortune in Human Affairs, and the Manner in Which It Is to Be Resisted 84(3)

XXVI An Exhortation to Free Italy from the Hands of the Barbarians 87(4)
Discourses Upon the First Ten Books of Titus Livy BOOK ONE 91(32)

II Of the Various Kinds of States and of What Kind the Roman Republic Was 91(5)

III The Events That Led to the Creation of the Tribunes of the Plebs, by Which the Roman Republic Became More Perfect 96(1)

IV That the Disorders Between the Plebs and the Senate Made the Roman Republic Strong and Free 97(2)

X Founders of Republics and Kingdoms Are As Much to Be Praised As Founders of Tyrannies Are to Be Censured 99(3)

XI On the Religion of the Romans 102(3)

XII The Importance with Which Religion Must Be Regarded and How Italy, Lacking It, Thanks to the Church of Rome, Has Been Ruined 105(3)

LVIII The Multitude Is Wiser and More Constant Than a Prince 108(5)
BOOK TWO 113(6)

II The People the Romans Had to Fight, and How Obstinately They Defended Their Freedom 113(6)
BOOK THREE 119(4)

XXI How It Happened That Hannibal Gained the Same Results in Italy As Scipio Did in Spain by Contrary Means 119(2)

XLI That One's Country Ought to Be Defended, Whether with Shame or Glory, by Whatever Means Possible 121(2)
Chronology 123(2)
Notes to The Prince 125(17)
Notes to The Discourses 142(4)
Selected Bibliography 146