The Prince on The Art of Power: The new illustrated edition of the renaissance masterpiece on leadership

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More relevant than ever, and an essential addition to any home library ? a classic text that examines the relationship between moral goodness and legitimate authority. Frequently misunderstood over the centuries as an unprincipled manual for manipulators and tyrants, careful reading of The Prince shows that it identifies freedom as an essential characteristic of a good society ? Machiavelli sets out axioms for success and order amid the often violent political intrigues that characterized Renaissance Europe. Combining fine photographic illustrations with a new translation of one of the great literary works of all time, this classic text sets out timeless principles for pursuing power and fortune and using them to best effect to secure order and peace. Much of Machiavelli?s republican thought can be identified in the American constitution, and many of his ideas ? such as the belief that life is subject to change and the winners will be those flexible enough to adapt ? remain as applicable today as they were five hundred years ago.

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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman and political theorist. From 1498 to 1512, he served as an official in the republican government of Florence, but lost his post when the Medici family returned to power. His most famous work, The Prince (1513), offered advice on how the ruler of a small state might best preserve his power, including judicious use of force. Table of Contents Introduction How many kinds of principalities there are, and by what means they are acquired Concerning hereditary principalities Why the kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel against the successors of Alexander at his death Concerning the way to govern cities of principalities which lived under their own laws before they were annexed Concerning new principalities which are acquired either by the arms of others or by good fortune Concerning those who have obtained a principality by wickedness Concerning a civil principality Concerning the way in which the strength of all principalities ought to be measured That which concerns a prince on the subject of the art of war Concerning things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed Concerning liberality and meanness Concerning cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared That one should avoid being despised and hated How a prince should conduct himself so as to gain renown Concerning the secretaries of princes How flatterers should be avoided What fortune can effect in human affairs, and how to withstand her An exhortation to liberate and seize Italy from the barbarians