The Prince (Chump Change Edition)

Unabridged version of THE PRINCE, by Niccolo Machiavelli and translated by N. H. Thomson, offered here for chump change.From 1513, THE PRINCE is divided into chapters covering ruling power, be it in the office or across continents. Topics include power forms (mixed, heredity), power acquisition (with help, through criminal acts), and power aspects (bearing, flatters, secretaries).Read it.  Learn from it. Use it. Contents DEDICATION      3CHAPTER I: OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF PRINCEDOM, AND OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY ARE ACQUIRED                3CHAPTER II: OF HEREDITARY PRINCEDOMS           3CHAPTER III: OF MIXED PRINCEDOMS     4CHAPTER IV: WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT, ON ALEXANDER’S DEATH, REBEL AGAINST HIS SUCCESSORS          7CHAPTER V: HOW CITIES OR PROVINCES WHICH BEFORE THEIR ACQUISITION HAVE LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS ARE TO BE GOVERNED   8CHAPTER VI: OF NEW PRINCEDOMS WHICH A PRINCE ACQUIRES WITH HIS OWN ARMS AND BY MERIT   9CHAPTER VII: OF NEW PRINCEDOMS ACQUIRED BY THE AID OF OTHERS AND BY GOOD FORTUNE              11CHAPTER VIII: OF THOSE WHO BY THEIR CRIMES COME TO BE PRINCES   14CHAPTER IX: OF THE CIVIL PRINCEDOM  16CHAPTER X: HOW THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCEDOMS SHOULD BE MEASURED 17CHAPTER XI: OF ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCEDOMS  18CHAPTER XII: HOW MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SOLDIERS THERE ARE, AND OF MERCENARIES     19CHAPTER XIII: OF AUXILIARY, MIXED, AND NATIONAL ARMS       21CHAPTER XIV: OF THE DUTY OF A PRINCE IN RESPECT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS         23CHAPTER XV: OF THE QUALITIES IN RESPECT OF WHICH MEN, AND MOST OF ALL PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED       24CHAPTER XVI: OF LIBERALITY AND MISERLINESS                25CHAPTER XVII: OF CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED OR FEARED           26CHAPTER XVIII: HOW PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH         27CHAPTER XIX: THAT A PRINCE SHOULD SEEK TO ESCAPE CONTEMPT AND HATRED             28CHAPTER XX: WHETHER FORTRESSES, AND CERTAIN OTHER EXPEDIENTS TO WHICH PRINCES OFTEN HAVE RECOURSE, ARE PROFITABLE OR HURTFUL            33CHAPTER XXI: HOW A PRINCE SHOULD BEAR HIMSELF SO AS TO ACQUIRE REPUTATION 35CHAPTER XXII: OF THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES               36CHAPTER XXIII: THAT FLATTERERS SHOULD BE SHUNNED               37CHAPTER XXIV: WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES     38CHAPTER XXV: WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS, AND HOW SHE MAY BE WITHSTOOD  38CHAPTER XXVI: AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS   40