The Prince /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Books,
1961.
©1981 |
| Edición: | 1ra. ed. |
| Colección: | The Penguin Classics
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- How many kinds of principality there are and the ways in which they are acquired.
- Hereditary principalities.
- Composite principalities.
- Why the kingdom of Darius conquered by Alexander did not rebel against his successors after his death.
- How cities or principalities which lived under their own laws should be administered after being conquered.
- New principalities acquired by one´s own arms and prowess.
- New principalities acquired with the help of fortune and foreign arms.
- Those who come to power by crime.
- The constitutional principality.
- How the power of every principality should be measured.
- Ecclesiastical principalities.
- Military organization and troops.
- Auxiliary, composite, and native troops.
- How a prince should organize his militia.
- The things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed.
- Generosity and parsimony.
- Cruelty and compassion; and whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse.
- How princes should honour their word.
- The need to avoid contempt and hatred.
- Whether fortresses and many of the other presentday expedients to which princes have recourse are useful or not.
- How a prince must act to win honour.
- A prince´s personal staff.
- How flatterers must be shunned.
- Why the Italian princes have lost their states.
- How far bumman affairs are governed by fortune and how fortune can be opposed.
- Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians.