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Machiavelli: the prince

Auteur : Niccolò Machiavelli; Quentin Skinner; Russell Price
Éditeur : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Collection : Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
Édition/format :  Livre : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
Résumé :
In his introduction to this new translation by Russell Price, Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries. This new edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as well as biographical  Lire la suite...
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Genre/forme : Early works to 1800
Ouvrages avant 1800
Personne nommée : Niccolò Machiavelli; Niccolò Machiavelli; Niccolò Machiavelli
Type d’ouvrage : Ressource Internet
Format : Livre, Ressource Internet
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Niccolò Machiavelli; Quentin Skinner; Russell Price
ISBN : 0521342406 9780521342407 0521349931 9780521349932
Numéro OCLC : 17546826
Note sur la langue : Translation from the Italian of: Il principe.
Notes : Includes appendixes.
Description : xxxv, 152 p. ; 23 cm.
Contenu : Introduction ----
Principals events in Machiavelli's life ----
Translator's note ----
Map ----
Dedicatory letter ----
1. The different kinds of principality and how they are acquired ---
2. Hereditary principalities ---
3. Mixed principalities ---
4. Why the Kingdom of Darius, conquered by Alexander, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death ---
5. How one should govern cities or principalities that, before being conquered, used to live under their own laws ---
6. New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability ---
7. New principalities acquired through the power of others and their favour ---
8. Those who become rulers through wicked means ---
9. The civil principality ---
10. How the strength of all principalities should be measured ---
11. Ecclesiastical principalities ---
12. The different types of army, and mercenary troops ---
13. Auxiliaries, mixed troop and negative troops ---
14. How a ruler should act concerning military matters ---
15. The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed ---
16. Generosity and meanness ---
17. Cruelty and mercifulness and whether it is better to be loved or feared ---
18. How rulers should keep their promises ---
19. How contempt and hatred should be avoided ---
20. Whether building fortresses, and many other things that rulers frequently do, are useful or not ---
21. how a ruler should act in order to gain reputation ---
22. The secretaries of rulers ---
23. How flatterers should be shunned ---
24. Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states ---
25. How much power fortune has over human affairs, and how it should be resisted ---
26. Exhortation to liberate Italy from the Barbarian yoke ----
Appendixes.
Titre de collection : Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
Autres titres : Principe.
Responsabilité : edited by Quentin Skinner and Russell Price.
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Résumé :

In his introduction to this new translation by Russell Price, Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries. This new edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as well as biographical notes on characters in the text.

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