The Prince - Must Read | 26reads

Niccolo Machiavelli

2 hrs to read

Contents

1 min

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

1 min

II - Concerning Hereditary Principalities

1 min

III - Concerning Mixed Principalities

11 mins

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

3 mins

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

1 min

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

4 mins

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

10 mins

VIII - Concerning Those Who Have Obtained a Principality by Wickedness

6 mins

IX - Concerning a Civil Principality

5 mins

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

2 mins

XI - Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities

3 mins

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

6 mins

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

4 mins

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

3 mins

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

2 mins

XVI - Concerning Liberality and Meanness

3 mins

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

4 mins

XVIII - Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith

3 mins

XIX - That One Should Avoid Being Despised and Hated

14 mins

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

5 mins

XXII - Concerning the Secretaries of Princes

1 min

XXIII - How Flatterers Should Be Avoided

2 mins

XXIV - Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States

2 mins

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

4 mins

XXVI - An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians

5 mins

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