CONTENTS
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI TO LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT
Chapter
[1]. The various kinds of Government and the ways by which they are established.
[2]. Of Hereditary Monarchies.
[3]. Of Mixed Monarchies.
[4]. Why the Kingdom of Darius, occupied by Alexander, did not rebel against the successors of the latter after his death.
[5]. The way to govern Cities or Dominions that, previous to being occupied, lived under their own Laws.
[6]. Of New Dominions which have been acquired by one's own Arms and Powers.
[7]. Of New Dominions acquired by the Power of others or by Fortune.
[8]. Of those who have attained the position of Prince by villainy.
[9]. Of the Civic Principality.
[10]. How the strength of all States should be measured.
[11]. Of Ecclesiastical Principalities.
[12]. The different kinds of Militia and Mercenary Soldiers.
[13]. Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and Native Troops
[14]. What the duties of a Prince are with regard to the Militia.
[15]. Of the things for which Men, and especially Princes, are praised or blamed.
[16]. Of Liberality and Niggardliness.
[17]. Of Cruelty and Clemency, and whether it is better to be loved or feared.
[18]. In what way Princes must keep faith.
[19]. That we must avoid being despised and hated.
[20]. Whether Fortresses and other things which Princes often make are useful or injurious.
[21]. How a Prince must act in order to gain reputation.
[22]. Of the Secretaries of Princes.
[23]. How Flatterers must be shunned.
[24]. Why the Princes of Italy have lost their States.
[25]. How much Fortune can do in human affairs, and how it may be opposed.
[26]. Exhortation to liberate Italy from the Barbarians.