The Prince
A job application, written in exile, that accidentally founded political science.
- Listening time
- about 3 h 48 min
- Length
- 34,928 words
- First published
- 1532
- Public domain
- the author died in 1927
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 197 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Thinking It Through
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How it begins.
The new are either entirely new, as was Milan to Francesco Sforza, or they are, as it were, members annexed to the hereditary state of the prince who has acquired them, as was the kingdom of Naples to that of the King of Spain. Such dominions thus acquired are either accustomed to live under a prince, or to live in freedom; and are acquired either by the arms of the prince himself, or of others, or else by fortune or by ability. Chapter 2 Concerning Hereditary Principalities I will leave out all discussion on republics, inasmuch as in another place I have written of them at length, and will address myself only to principalities.
The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli · 1532
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