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The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli s death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but long before then, in fact since the first appearance of the Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings. Although it was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it is generally agreed that it was especially innovative. This is only partly because it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin, a practice which had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dante s Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature.The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics.Although it is relatively short, the treatise is the most remembered of Machiavelli s works and the one most responsible for bringing the word Machiavellian into usage as a pejorative. It also helped make Old Nick an English term for the devil, and even contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words politics and politician in western countries. In terms of subject matter it overlaps with the much longer Discourses on Livy, which was written a few years later. In its use of near-contemporary Italians as examples of people who perpetrated criminal deeds for politics, another lesser-known work by Machiavelli which The Prince has been compared to is the Life of Castruccio Castracani.The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that the aims of princes-such as glory and survival-can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends. He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. -Machiavelli, Chapter 15
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Length5 hrs 38 mins
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Publish dateFeb 25, 2020
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Table of contents
1Nicolo Machiavelli
26cannot
2itself of
27fault, but
3five capital errors
28the Orsini and
4force
29that pretext
5their
30it
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6the
31CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINCIPALITY BY WICKEDNESS
7the germs of her renaissance among the nations of Europe.
32he
8contemporary
33for
9Correspondence
34CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY
10CHAPTER III. CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES
35can
11some difference
36the cruelty of
12in mind
37restrain
13in
38through
14for
39never
15friends;
40themselves, yet when
16to which
41in
17for
42if formerly
18sends
43delayed
19there
44recently
20those
45the
21Romans
46from
22cities or
47better
23least on
48than war and
24the
49that
25and
50it again, especially as
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