The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli ; introduction by Christian Gauss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.

Contributor:

Gauss, Christian, 1878-1951.

Ricci, Luigi, 1842-1915.

Vincent, Eric Reginald Pearce, 1894-

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Mentor book ; 69.

A Mentor book ; 69

Standardized Title:

Principe. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Political ethics.

Genre:

Early works.

Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

138 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by The New American Library, [©1952]

Contents:

The various kinds of government and the ways by which they are established

Of hereditary monarchies

Of mixed monarchies

Why the Kingdom of Darius, occupied by Alexander, did not rebel against the successors of the latter after his death

The way to govern cities or dominions that, previous to being occupied, lived under their own laws

Of new dominions which have been acquired by one's own arms and ability

Of new dominions acquired by the power of others or by fortune

Of those who have attained the position of prince by villaniny

Of the civic principality

How the strength of all states should be measured

Of ecclesiastical principalities

The different kinds of militia and mercenary sources

Of auxiliary, mixed, and native troops

The duties of a prince with regard to the militia

Of the things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed

Of liberality and niggardliness

Of cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved or feared

In what way princes must keep faith

That we must avoid being despised and hated

Whether fortresses and other things which princes often contrive are useful or injurious

How a prince must act in order to gain reputation

Of the secretaries of princes

How flatterers must be shunned

Why the princes of Italy have lost their states

How much fortune can do in human affairs and how it may be opposed

Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians.

Notes:

"First printing, January, 1952."

"Published as a Mentor Book by arrangement with Oxford University Press."

"The translation of Machiabelli's 'Prince' by Luigi Ricci was first published in 1903." The present revised translation by E. R. P Vincent was first published in 1935 in Oxford University Press' World's Classics.

Translation of: Il principe.

Publisher's advertisements: [6] pages at end.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "H. Potok Nov. 1952".

OCLC:

5296472