The Prince

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Contents

1. Part 1 · 361 words
2. THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA · 46 words
3. INTRODUCTION · 2,637 words
4. THE MAN AND HIS WORKS · 1,247 words
5. DEDICATION · 438 words
6. THE PRINCE · 134 words
7. CHAPTER II. CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES · 251 words
8. CHAPTER III. CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES · 10,034 words
9. CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY · 2,020 words
10. CHAPTER XI. CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES · 2,871 words
11. CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE’S OWN · 2,795 words
12. CHAPTER XVI. CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS · 3,170 words
13. CHAPTER XIX. THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED · 6,663 words
14. CHAPTER XXII. CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES · 451 words
15. CHAPTER XXIII. HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED · 729 words
16. CHAPTER XXIV. WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES · 1,713 words
17. CHAPTER XXVI. AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS · 1,436 words
18. BY NICOLO MACHIAVELLI · 2,443 words
19. THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA · WRITTEN BY NICOLO MACHIAVELLI · 10 words
20. CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI 1284-1328 · 10,380 words