The Prince (Mansfield translation)
Search in google:
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new materials added for this edition, make it the definitive version of The Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and those interested in the dark art of politics.This revised edition of Mansfield's acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli's time."Of the other available [translations], that of Harvey C. Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability, as well as providing an excellent introduction and notes."—Clifford Orwin, The Wall Street Journal"Mansfield's work . . . is worth acquiring as the best combination of accuracy and readability."—Choice"There is good reason to assert that Machiavelli has met his match in Mansfield. . . . [He] is ready to read Machiavelli as he demands to be read—plainly and boldly, but also cautiously."—John Gueguen, The Sixteenth Century Journal Sixteenth Century Journal - John Gueguen There is good reason to assert that Machiavelli has met his match in Mansfield.
IntroductionA Note on the TranslationChronologyMapThe Prince1Dedicatory Letter3IHow Many Are the Kinds of Principalities and in What Modes They Are Acquired5IIOf Hereditary Principalities6IIIOf Mixed Principalities7IVWhy the Kingdom of Darius Which Alexander Seized Did Not Rebel from His Successors after Alexander's Death16VHow Cities or Principalities Which Lived by Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered20VIOf New Principalities That Are Acquired through One's Own Arms and Virtue21VIIOf New Principalities That Are Acquired by Others' Arms and Fortune25VIIIOf Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes34IXOf the Civil Principality38XIn What Mode the Forces of All Principalities Should Be Measured42XIOf Ecclesiastical Principalities45XIIHow Many Kinds of Military There Are and Concerning Mercenary Soldiers48XIIIOf Auxiliary, Mixed, and One's Own Soldiers54XIVWhat a Prince Should Do Regarding the Military58XVOf Those Things for Which Men and Especially Princes Are Praised or Blamed61XVIOf Liberality and Parsimony62XVIIOf Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary65XVIIIIn What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes68XIXOf Avoiding Contempt and Hatred71XXWhether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every Day Are Useful or Useless83XXIWhat a Prince Should Do to Be Held in Esteem87XXIIOf Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries92XXIIIIn What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided93XXIVWhy the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States96XXVHow Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed98XXVIExhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians101AppMachiavelli's Letter of December 10, 1513107Glossary113Bibliography141Index of Proper Names145
