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Non.

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The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1532 · translated by W. K. Marriott, 1908 · text from Project Gutenberg

Machiavelli's handbook on how principalities are won, held and lost, judged by what rulers actually do rather than by what they ought to do.

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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) served the Florentine republic as a diplomat and official until the Medici returned to power in 1512. Out of office, he wrote The Prince in 1513 and dedicated it to Lorenzo de’ Medici. It was published in 1532, after his death.

This copy is a PDF of the public-domain Project Gutenberg text of W. K. Marriott’s translation, with his introduction. Gutenberg’s edition also includes two shorter works by Machiavelli that Marriott translated: his account of how Cesare Borgia killed his rebellious captains, and his life of Castruccio Castracani (110 pages).