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- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who was later forced out of public life.
- About the Author.
- [X-Info] Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527: The history of Florence and of the affairs of Italy: from the earliest times to the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
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Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527)
Personal
Born May 3, 1469, in Florence, Florentine Republic (now Italy); died June 21, 1527, in Florence, Florentine Republic; son of a lawyer; married Marietta Corsini, 1501; children: four sons, two daughters. Religion: Roman Catholic.
Career
Statesman, political theorist, and author. Republic of Florence, head of Second Chancery, 1498, secretary of diplomatic/military agency, 1498-1512; helped organize standing militia, 1509; writer, beginning c. 1513.
Writings
Decennale Primo (poetry), 1504.
Discorso dell'ordinare lo stato di Firenze alle armi, c. 1507, translation published in Discourses, 1970.
Discorsi sulla prima deca di Tito Livio, c. 1518, translated by Edward Dacres as Machiavelli's Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius,Thomas Paine (London, England), 1636, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella as Discourses on Livy,Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1997.
La Mandragola (play; produced in Florence, 1518; also see below), [Florence], c. 1518-1524, published with an introduction b
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The Prince
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1232 ***
by Nicolo Machiavelli
Translated by W. K. Marriott
Contents
| INTRODUCTION |
| YOUTH Æt. 1-25—1469-94 |
| OFFICE Æt. 25-43—1494-1512 |
| LITERATURE AND DEATH Æt. 43-58—1512-27 |
| THE MAN AND HIS WORKS |
| DEDICATION |
| THE PRINCE |
| CHAPTER I. HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED |
| CHAPTER II. CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES |
| CHAPTER III. CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES |
| CHAPTER IV. WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH |
| CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES WHICH LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS BEFORE THEY WERE ANNEXED |
| CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED BY ONE’S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY |
| CHAPTER VII. CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED EITHER BY THE ARMS OF OTHERS OR BY GOOD FORTUNE |
| CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINCIPALITY BY WICKEDNESS |
CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPAL
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