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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON

Niccolò Machiavelli (born May 3, 1469, Florence-died June 21, 1527, Florence) Italian statesman, historian, and political theorist. He rose to power after the overthrow of Girolamo Savonarola, was appointed secretary and Second Chancellor to the Florentine Republic in 1498. Working as a diplomat for 14 years, he came in contact with the most powerful figures in Europe. He was dismissed when the Medici family returned to power in 1512, and during the next year he was arrested and tortured for conspiracy. Though soon released, he was not permitted to return to public office. His famous treatise The Prince (1513, published 1532) is a handbook for rulers; though dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence from 1513, it failed to win Machiavelli his favour. Machiavelli viewed The Prince as an objective description of political reality. Because he viewed human nature as venal, grasping, and thoroughly self-serving, he suggested that ruthless cunning is appropriate to the conduct of government. Though admired for its incisive brilliance, the book also has been widely condemned as cynical and amoral, and “Machiavellian” has come to mean deceitful, unscrupulous, and manipulative. His other works include a set of discourses on Livy (completed c. 1518), the comedy The Mandrake (completed c. 1518), The Art of War (published 1521), and the Florentine Histories (completed c. 1525).

INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGY OF NICCOLó MACHIAVELLI7S LIFE AND WORK
HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF The Prince
THE PRINCE
DEDICATION
I. OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF PRINCEDOM, AND OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY ARE ACQUIRED
II. OF HEREDITARY PRINCEDOMS
III. OF MIXED PRINCEDOMS
IV. WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT, ON ALEXANDER'S DEATH, REBEL AGAINST His SUCCESSORS
V. How CITIES OR PROVINCES WHICH BEFORE THEIR ACQUISITION HAVE LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS ARE TO BE GOVERNED
VI. OF NEW PRINCEDOMS WHICH A PRINCE ACQUIRES WITH His OWN ARMS AND BY MERIT
VII. OF NEW PRINCEDOMS ACQUIRED BY THE AID OF OTHERS AND BY GOOD FORTUNE
VIII. OF THOSE WHO BY THEIR CRIMES COME TO BE PRINCES
IX. OF THE CIVIL PRINCEDOM
X. HOW THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCEDOMS SHOULD BE MEASURED
XI. OF ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCEDOMS
XII. HOW MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SOLDIERS THERE ARE, AND OF MERCENARIES
XIII. OF AUXILIARY, MIXED, AND NATIONAL ARMS
XIV. OF THE DUTY OF A PRINCE IN RESPECT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
XV. OF THE QUALITIES IN RESPECT OF WHICH MEN, AND MOST OF ALL PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED
XVI. OF LIBERALITY AND MISERLINESS
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