CONTENTS
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Machiavelli, Niccolò and Ricci, Luigi
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.