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501 XVII | cogunt~Moliri, et late fines custode tueri.36~Nevertheless he
502 XIII | them go, he had them all cut to pieces, and afterwards
503 VII(9) | Descritione del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino nello ammazzare
504 XXVI | if the cavalry had not dashed up, all would have been
505 XIII | conclusion, in mercenaries dastardy is most dangerous; in auxiliaries,
506 IX | this, one cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others,
507 XIX | fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him
508 Ded | anything which I hold more dear than, or value so much as,
509 VIII | slavery of their country was dearer than its liberty, and with
510 XIII(33) | House the other night in the debate on the reduction of armaments
511 XVIII | it less; nevertheless his deceits always succeeded according
512 VII(10) | Sinigalia, 31st December 1502.
513 XVIII(38)| Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem,~
514 VIII | multiply with time rather than decrease. Those who practise the
515 Ded | DEDICATION~To the Magnificent Lorenzo
516 XIII | conquer with others, not deeming that a real victory which
517 XIV | causes of their victories and defeat, so as to avoid the latter
518 III | that his armies should be defeated and driven out of Italy;
519 III | make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours,
520 VI | conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well
521 XXIV | thought of flight and not of defending themselves, and they hoped
522 XII | arms with which a prince defends his state are either his
523 IX | either by intrigue or open defiance; and the prince has not
524 VII(9) | duke in his “Descritione del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino
525 XII | conquests come but slowly, long delayed and inconsiderable, but
526 XIX | fatigue, a despiser of all delicate food and other luxuries,
527 Ded | which they see him take most delight; whence one often sees horses,
528 III | rebellion to punish the delinquents, to clear out the suspects,
529 XXVI | to send someone who shall deliver her from these wrongs and
530 XXIV | your security, because that deliverance is of no avail which does
531 VI | to follow him so as to be delivered out of bondage. It was necessary
532 VII(13) | Julius II was Giuliano della Rovere, Cardinal of San
533 XXI | is not your friend will demand your neutrality, whilst
534 XX | affairs. And since the matter demands it, I must not fail to warn
535 XX | our times has been seen to demolish two fortresses in Citta
536 XII | suffered the penalty.~I wish to demonstrate further the infelicity of
537 XIX | content himself, for by denouncing you he can look for every
538 XII | had taken Pisa, nobody can deny that it would have been
539 XV | in discussing it I shall depart from the methods of other
540 VII | himself, and no longer have depended on the luck and the forces
541 XIII | contrary, it is entirely dependent on good fortune, not having
542 X | they always keep in public depots enough for one year’s eating,
543 XV | we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the
544 III | he was weakening himself, depriving himself of friends and of
545 XIX | maintaining his dignity, often descending to the theatre to compete
546 XXI(44) | groups, united by common descent, and included individuals
547 XVIII | by ancient writers, who describe how Achilles and many other
548 XXI(44) | Florence are most admirably described by Mr Edgcumbe Staley in
549 XX | hostile, if they are of a description to need assistance to support
550 VII(9) | proceedings of the duke in his “Descritione del modo tenuto dal duca
551 XVIII(40)| phrase inevitably employed to designate the Huguenot heresy. South
552 VI | the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet
553 XIV | the essential which it is desirable that a captain should possess,
554 VII | Tuscany, and the king made him desist from that undertaking; hence
555 XXVI | have endured every kind of desolation.~Although lately some spark
556 XIX | as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack,
557 XIX | inflicted with a resolved and desperate courage, cannot be avoided
558 XIX | not to drive the nobles to desperation, and to keep the people
559 XIX | most enduring of fatigue, a despiser of all delicate food and
560 XXI(44) | members.” The word “artel,” despite its apparent similarity,
561 XV | virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is
562 XIX | would have been utterly destructive to Caracalla, Commodus,
563 III | not having been either detected or treated in the beginning,
564 XXI | that the one should not be deterred from improving his possessions
565 XXV | both because he cannot deviate from what nature inclines
566 XXV | because he would never have deviated from those ways to which
567 XII | their military rules, and devised by them to avoid, as I have
568 XXVI | Italians are in strength, dexterity, and subtlety. But when
569 XVII | Virgil, through the mouth of Dido, excuses the inhumanity
570 XX | citizens, distracted by their differences, should not unite against
571 XXV | said, that two men working differently bring about the same effect,
572 Ded | prolonged diligence, I now send, digested into a little volume, to
573 XXVI | they are well founded and dignified will make him revered and
574 Ded | send it; wherein, if it be diligently read and considered by you,
575 XIII | Switzers, he has entirely diminished the value of his own arms,
576 XVIII(38)| this passage is imitated directly from Cicero’s “De Officiis”:~“
577 XXV | he will be successful who directs his actions according to
578 III | is only deferred to your disadvantage. And if another should allege
579 XIII | them in they are always disadvantageous; for losing, one is undone,
580 XIII | to few. And if the first disaster to the Roman Empire33 should
581 XXII | the end will always be disastrous for either one or the other.~
582 XVIII(38)| genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem,~alterum per vim; cumque
583 XIII | looks well at first, cannot discern the poison that is hidden
584 XIII | he turned to mercenaries, discerning less danger in them, and
585 XX | affection towards him, but only discontent with their government, then
586 XXIII | wish; he ought rather to discourage every one from offering
587 XII | CONCERNING MERCENARIES~HAVING discoursed particularly on the characteristics
588 XXIII | they are very careful and discriminating. It is that of flatterers,
589 XXII | or not according to the discrimination of the prince. And the first
590 XIV | that by these continual discussions there could never arise,
591 XIV | there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion,
592 XVIII | necessary to know well how to disguise this characteristic, and
593 VII | and liberal, to destroy a disloyal soldiery and to create new,
594 V | it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country,
595 V | Carthage, and Numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them.
596 VII | be at once satisfied and dismayed.~But let us return whence
597 XVII | the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to
598 XII | they formerly made some display and appeared valiant amongst
599 VII | his actions; and if his dispositions were of no avail, that was
600 VII | had killed as many of the dispossessed lords as he could lay hands
601 XX | bloodshed, yet they nursed these disputes amongst them, so that the
602 XVII | quite necessary for him to disregard the reputation of cruelty,
603 XVIII | be a great pretender and dissembler; and men are so simple,
604 XVII | fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them
605 III | enterprise, in exchange for the dissolution of his marriage4 and for
606 VII | would render it more easy by dissolving the former marriage of King
607 IX | in all cities these two distinct parties are found, and from
608 XXI | consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles,
609 XX | them, so that the citizens, distracted by their differences, should
610 XX | principality has always distributed arms. Histories are full
611 XI | among them some mind to make disturbance, nevertheless he held two
612 VII | gave them more cause for disunion than for union, so that
613 XII | either with stockade or ditch, nor did they campaign in
614 X | seeing they have proper ditches and walls, they have sufficient
615 XVIII | have said above, not to diverge from the good if he can
616 III | retain a state composed of divers elements.~King Louis was
617 XXIII | and he, being pliant, is diverted from them. Hence it follows
618 III | have the kingdom of Naples, divides it with the King of Spain,
619 IV | others are his servants; and, dividing his kingdom into sanjaks,
620 III(4) | Louis XII divorced his wife, Jeanne, daughter
621 XII(24) | village in Essex. He married Domnia, a daughter of Bernabo Visconti.~
622 XXI | either a true friend or a downright enemy, that to say, when,
623 V | live under their own laws, drawing a tribute, and establishing
624 XII(21) | kind of a felicity of a dream. He passed the whole length
625 XXV | Naples; on the other hand, he drew after him the King of France,
626 XIV | his men well organized and drilled, to follow incessantly the
627 X | enough for one year’s eating, drinking, and firing. And beyond
628 III | valour and prudence, for time drives everything before it, and
629 XXI | with a pious cruelty to driving out and clearing his kingdom
630 III | own pensioner as king, he drove him out, to put one there
631 VII(9) | Descritione del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino nello ammazzare
632 XXVI | Look attentively at the duels and the hand-to-hand combats,
633 XIV | and troubles of arms, from dukes became private persons.
634 XVIII(38)| Officiis”:~“Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum
635 XVII | its being new, saying:~Res dura, et regni novitas me talia
636 II | and in the antiquity and duration of his rule the memories
637 XVII | united or disposed to its duties.~Among the wonderful deeds
638 XII | in person and perform the duty of captain; the republic
639 VIII | Giovanni Fogliani, and in the early days of his youth sent to
640 XX | has a greater necessity to earn renown than an hereditary
641 XVII | nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured,
642 XXV(46) | miserable universe.” Sorel’s “Eastern Question.”
643 X | depots enough for one year’s eating, drinking, and firing. And
644 XVI | liberal, seeing that with his economy his revenues are enough,
645 XXI(44) | admirably described by Mr Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the
646 XIX(42) | conspiracies may get its edge from his own very recent
647 VI | he was able to build any edifice: thus, whilst he had endured
648 XVIII(40)| were omitted in the Testina edition, which was published with
649 XII(24) | France, and was knighted by Edward III; afterwards he collected
650 XV | ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation;
651 XIX | being disgusted with the effeminacy of Alexander, of whom I
652 XIX | length. And one of the most efficacious remedies that a prince can
653 VI | the people of Israel in Egypt enslaved and oppressed by
654 VI | enslaved and oppressed by the Egyptians, in order that they should
655 XII | they lost that which in eight hundred years they had acquired
656 VII | said, not being able to elect a Pope to his own mind,
657 VII | the fortune of him who has elevated them — two most inconstant
658 VII(9) | death he procured his own elevation to the duchy. Machiavelli
659 Ded | so many are accustomed to embellish their works; for I have
660 Ded | dangers; which work I have not embellished with swelling or magnificent
661 VII | this state of affairs and embroil the powers, so as to make
662 XIX | son Antoninus was a most eminent man, and had very excellent
663 XIX | injury to those whom he employs or has around him in the
664 VI | and their high ability enabled them to recognize the opportunity
665 XX | principality; such methods for enabling one the more easily to manage
666 XII | garrisons of the towns attack encampments at night; they did not surround
667 XXVI | of infantry whenever they encounter them in close combat. Owing
668 VIII | a very short time, being endowed with wit and a vigorous
669 IX | for their own ambitious ends they shun binding themselves,
670 VI | unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for
671 XVI | attacks, and is able to engage in enterprises without burdening
672 XII | father, Sforza, having been engaged by Queen Johanna23 of Naples,
673 XVIII | showing how many treaties and engagements have been made void and
674 XIII | ordinance of Charles had been enlarged or maintained.~But the scanty
675 XIII | commenced only with the enlisting of the Goths; because from
676 XX | factions; others have fostered enmities against themselves; others
677 XVII | enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various
678 XXII | study him, honouring him, enriching him, doing him kindnesses,
679 III | as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject
680 XXI | state.~Further, he ought to entertain the people with festivals
681 VIII | viands and all the other entertainments that are usual in such banquets
682 IV | the King of France. The entire monarchy of the Turk is
683 XXI | who is your friend will entreat you to declare yourself
684 VIII | friends and retainers; and he entreated Giovanni to arrange that
685 XXVI | festered. It is seen how she entreats God to send someone who
686 XI | Valentino, and by reason of the entry of the French, he brought
687 VI | overcome, and those who envied them their success are exterminated,
688 XXI | out the Romans. He sent envoys to the Achaeans, who were
689 XII | captains. After the death of Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon was made
690 VI | if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will
691 XXV | different observances are equally successful, the one being
692 IX | consider themselves his equals, and because of this he
693 VIII(16) | probably comes near the modern equivalent of Machiavelli’s thought
694 VII | deceived. Therefore, the duke erred in his choice, and it was
695 XXI | war, nothing can be more erroneous; because by not interfering
696 XIX | thus cannot hope for any escape.~Endless examples could
697 VII | lay hands on, and few had escaped; he had won over the Roman
698 XIV | lacks this skill lacks the essential which it is desirable that
699 XII(24) | Hedingham, a village in Essex. He married Domnia, a daughter
700 XVIII(38)| hoc beluarum;~confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non
701 XXV | other does not.~Changes in estate also issue from this, for
702 III(1) | who married Beatrice d’Este. He ruled over Milan from
703 | etc
704 XXVI | nevertheless there was some evidence of it at the battle of Ravenna,
705 XI | of them, because, being exalted and maintained by God, it
706 III | loss, and many more are exasperated, because the whole state
707 III | discontented, either through excess of ambition or through fear,
708 III | him in the enterprise, in exchange for the dissolution of his
709 XIX | conspirator has to fear before the execution of his plot, in this case
710 XVII | whole people, whilst those executions which originate with a prince
711 VI | Moses, he having been a mere executor of the will of God, yet
712 XIV | man did, who took as an exemplar one who had been praised
713 XXVI | if military virtue were exhausted, this has happened because
714 XV | praiseworthy in a prince to exhibit all the above qualities
715 XXVI | CHAPTER XXVI~AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE
716 XXI | were friends of the Romans, exhorting them to remain neutral;
717 XIII(33) | British Empire maintains its existence. When Mr Balfour replied
718 XII | captains; but when they expanded, as under Carmignola25,
719 XII | in the beginning of their expansion on land, through not having
720 XIII | conquerors (against all expectation, both his and others), it
721 IX | from him of whom they were expecting evil, are bound more closely
722 XIX | against a prince always expects to please them by his removal;
723 XXIV | have neglected all other expedients for that, since you would
724 XXIII | But if a prince who is not experienced should take counsel from
725 IX | so much the more is this experiment dangerous, inasmuch as it
726 XXVI | liberator appear. Nor can one express the love with which he would
727 XII | and Florentines formerly extended their dominions by these
728 XIX | had around him, to such an extent that he was murdered in
729 VII | in four ways. Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords
730 XXV | opinion. Nevertheless, not to extinguish our free will, I hold it
731 XVI | it by pillage, sack, and extortion, handling that which belongs
732 XX | and thus the prince always extracts more profit from them than
733 XXVI | Further than this, how extraordinarily the ways of God have been
734 XXVI | should be reduced to the extremity she is now in, that she
735 VIII | Agathocles in entering into and extricating himself from dangers be
736 Ded | rounded periods, nor with any extrinsic allurements or adornments
737 XVIII | judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because
738 XVII | upbraided in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the
739 VI | the strongest. Further, it facilitates matters when the prince,
740 XVI | considered mean; the rest have failed. Pope Julius the Second
741 VII | created a Spaniard Pope, and, failing him, he ought to have consented
742 XV | one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate
743 XVIII | of no effect through the faithlessness of princes; and he who has
744 XX | comes this policy proves fallacious.~4. Without doubt princes
745 XXIII | themselves they run the danger of falling into contempt. Because there
746 XVII | are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and
747 VII | Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords whom he had
748 VII | having a lofty spirit and far-reaching aims, could not have regulated
749 IX | being in these affairs more far-seeing and astute, always come
750 XIII | you down, or they bind you fast.~Charles VII31, the father
751 XIX | hatred or contempt has been fatal to the above-named emperors,
752 VI | Rome and founder of the fatherland. It was necessary that Cyrus
753 XIX | within the memory of our fathers. Messer Annibale Bentivoglio,
754 VII | avail, that was not his fault, but the extraordinary and
755 XX | discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him
756 XIX(42) | very recent experience (February 1513), when he had been
757 III | by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.
758 III | strong measures against them, feeling bound to them. For, although
759 XII(21) | it again, in a kind of a felicity of a dream. He passed the
760 IX | but by the favour of his fellow citizens — this may be called
761 XXIII | should let his anger be felt.~And if there are some who
762 VIII | honourably received by the Fermans, and he lodged him in his
763 XXVI | sores that for long have festered. It is seen how she entreats
764 XXI | entertain the people with festivals and spectacles at convenient
765 XIII | have said above of hectic fevers. Therefore, if he who rules
766 II | I say at once there are fewer difficulties in holding
767 XXVI | Furore~Prendera l’arme, e fia il combatter corto:~Che
768 XIX | him twelve infantry and fifteen thousand cavalry on which
769 XVIII | and the man. This has been figuratively taught to princes by ancient
770 XX | although one cannot give a final judgment on all one of these
771 XXI | came down on Italy, he has finally attacked France; and thus
772 XXI | enterprises and setting a fine example. We have in our
773 XVII | talia cogunt~Moliri, et late fines custode tueri.36~Nevertheless
774 X | s eating, drinking, and firing. And beyond this, to keep
775 VII | wise and able man to fix firmly his roots in the states
776 XXVI | I never knew a time more fit than the present.~And if,
777 IX(17) | conquered by the Romans under Flamininus in 195 B.C.; killed 192
778 VIII | little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.~
779 XIII | his enemies, they having fled, nor to his auxiliaries,
780 XXV | place to place; everything flies before it, all yield to
781 XXV | raging rivers, which when in flood overflows the plains, sweeping
782 XXI(44) | craft or trade guilds, cf. Florio: “Arte . . . a whole company
783 VII | the way up, because they fly, but they have many when
784 XII | themselves off or run from the foe; which I should have little
785 III | any means, then there is folly and blame. Therefore, if
786 XIX | despiser of all delicate food and other luxuries, which
787 XII | to be found two thousand foot soldiers. They had, besides
788 XVII | nothing but his too great forbearance, which gave his soldiers
789 XX | living near you.~3. Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned
790 XXI | insignificant king to be the foremost king in Christendom; and
791 III | Therefore, the Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them
792 XXII | first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his
793 XII | began to fight on land they forsook this virtue and followed
794 XIX | greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings
795 XX | reason the best possible fortress is — not to be hated by
796 VI | therefore, made those men fortunate, and their high ability
797 VI | become King of Rome and founder of the fatherland. It was
798 XIX | him is this, that in the fourteen years he held the empire
799 VII | college more to himself. Fourthly, by acquiring so much power
800 VII | overcome either by force or fraud, to make himself beloved
801 XII | soldiers, not killing in the fray, but taking prisoners and
802 XXV(46) | Frederick the Great was accustomed
803 IV | France. Hence arose those frequent rebellions against the Romans
804 XVIII | but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary
805 XIII | that he did not reap the fruit of his rash choice; because,
806 VII | Alexander and his own sickness frustrated his designs. Therefore,
807 XIX | have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not
808 VII | man, to whom he gave the fullest power. This man in a short
809 XXVI | Petrarch:~Virtu contro al Furore~Prendera l’arme, e fia il
810 XXVI(49) | Virtue against fury shall advance the fight,~
811 VII | Spaniards who were besieging Gaeta. It was his intention to
812 XX(43) | Catherine Sforza, a daughter of Galeazzo Sforza and Lucrezia Landriani,
813 XXI | prince declares himself gallantly in favour of one side, if
814 XII | towns at night, nor did the garrisons of the towns attack encampments
815 III | seen in Brittany, Burgundy, Gascony, and Normandy, which have
816 III | those who had opened the gates to him, finding themselves
817 XIII(33) | longer recognized.”—Pall Mall Gazette, 15th May 1906.
818 XVIII(38)| Officiis”:~“Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem,~
819 XIX | discuss briefly under this generality, that the prince must consider,
820 XV | his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel,
821 XXI(44) | oath. “Tribu” were possibly gentile groups, united by common
822 XII(28) | the famous “Company of St George,” composed entirely of Italian
823 III(5) | Archbishop of Rouen. He was Georges d’Amboise, created a cardinal
824 XXVI | infantry were confronted by German battalions, who follow the
825 XII(21) | With chalk in hand,” “col gesso.” This is one of the bons
826 XI | difficulties are prior to getting possession, because they
827 XX | fostered the Guelph and Ghibelline factions in their tributary
828 XVI | subjects’ you can be a ready giver, as were Cyrus, Caesar,
829 XIX | theatre to compete with gladiators, and doing other vile things,
830 XIX | those which are proper and glorious to keep a state that may
831 XII | to have acted safely and gloriously so long as they sent to
832 XXV | succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. One
833 XVI | liberality. And to the price who goes forth with his army, supporting
834 XIX | to his dominions deferred going to Rome and taking possession
835 Ded | sees horses, arms, cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar
836 XIII | himself to Saul to fight with Goliath, the Philistine champion,
837 III | by experience they have gone from bad to worse. This
838 XIII | with the enlisting of the Goths; because from that time
839 XIX | that are veterans in the governance and administration of provinces,
840 XXV | this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and
841 IX | deceived, as happened to the Gracchi in Rome and to Messer Giorgio
842 Ded | strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed
843 VII | for new, to be severe and gracious, magnanimous and liberal,
844 XXI | of his reign he attacked Granada, and this enterprise was
845 XIX | who was prince in Bologna (grandfather of the present Annibale),
846 IX | Scali18 in Florence. But granted a prince who has established
847 XIX | submit to its humours and to gratify them, and then good works
848 XIX | actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his
849 XIX | pay and give vent to their greed and cruelty. Hence it arose
850 XIV(34) | Philopoemen, “the last of the Greeks,” born 252 B.C., died 183
851 XXI(44) | Tribu” were possibly gentile groups, united by common descent,
852 XXIII | there is no other way of guarding oneself from flatterers
853 III | reason, therefore, such guards are as useless as a colony
854 XX | above reasons, fostered the Guelph and Ghibelline factions
855 XXI | favour or consideration, the guerdon of the conqueror.” Thus
856 XII | The principle that has guided them has been, first, to
857 XX | he might keep that state; Guidubaldo, Duke of Urbino, on returning
858 XXVI | necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope
859 VIII | understanding for this purpose with Hamilcar, the Carthaginian, who,
860 XXVI | attentively at the duels and the hand-to-hand combats, how superior the
861 XX | benefited, the others can be handled more freely, and this difference
862 XVII | Among the wonderful deeds of Hannibal this one is enumerated:
863 XXI | and he who loses will not harbour you because you did not
864 III | all become acquainted with hardship, and all become hostile,
865 XIX | then good works will do you harm.~But let us come to Alexander,
866 VIII | times, you are too late for harsh measures; and mild ones
867 XXV | with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by
868 III | his marriage4 and for the hat to Rouen5, to that I reply
869 XX | not save you if the people hate you, for there will never
870 XV | brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another
871 XII(24) | whose name was Sir John Hawkwood. He fought in the English
872 XIII | for they are much more hazardous than mercenaries, because
873 VIII | boldly held by him with many hazards and dangers. Yet it cannot
874 IV | remain make themselves the heads of fresh movements against
875 XXVI | waits for him who shall yet heal her wounds and put an end
876 III | is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great,
877 XVIII | appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful,
878 XXVI | be more enslaved than the Hebrews, more oppressed than the
879 XII(24) | born about 1320 at Sible Hedingham, a village in Essex. He
880 XIX | of the old prince not the heirs, but he who is elected to
881 VII | cities of Ionia and of the Hellespont, where princes were made
882 XVIII(40)| the show of religion was helpful to the politician, but the
883 XXVI | while the Germans stood helpless, and, if the cavalry had
884 III | the greatest and most real helps would be that he who has
885 XII(21) | country. Cf. “The History of Henry VII,” by Lord Bacon: “King
886 | hereafter
887 XVIII(40)| to designate the Huguenot heresy. South in his Sermon IX,
888 XV | possible, he may with less hesitation abandon himself to them.
889 XIII | discern the poison that is hidden in it, as I have said above
890 XIV | enemy should be upon that hill, and we should find ourselves
891 XIV | study hereafter; because the hills, valleys, and plains, and
892 XXI | and without any fear of hindrance, for he held the minds of
893 XVIII(38)| illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum;~confugiendum est
894 XI | barons. For these reasons his Holiness Pope Leo20 found the pontificate
895 XXIII(45)| died 1519, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He married,
896 XXVI | Italian would refuse him homage? To all of us this barbarous
897 VIII | that, having been away from home for many years, he wished
898 XVIII(38)| cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum;~confugiendum
899 XVI | for if one exercises it honestly and as it should be exercised,
900 III | their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and
901 VIII | murders Oliverotto, mounted on horseback, rode up and down the town
902 VIII | accompanied by one hundred horsemen, his friends and retainers;
903 X | of the people are still hot and ready for the defence;
904 XVIII(40)| employed to designate the Huguenot heresy. South in his Sermon
905 III | kingdom of Macedonia was humbled, Antiochus was driven out;
906 III | his friends without first humbling him, nor did the influence
907 XIV | in peaceful times stand idle, but increase his resources
908 XIV | and this is one of those ignominies against which a prince ought
909 XIII(33) | to show a most lamentable ignorance of the conditions under
910 III | benefit, would not endure the ill-treatment of the new prince. It is
911 XXV | is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that
912 X | damage is already done, the ills are incurred, and there
913 XVIII(38)| alterum per vim; cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc
914 XXVI | Athenians should be dispersed to illustrate the capabilities of Theseus:
915 VIII | first method, it will be illustrated by two examples — one ancient,
916 XV | Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince,
917 XV | truth of a matter than the imagination of it; for many have pictured
918 XXI | Never let any Government imagine that it can choose perfectly
919 XII | they were not the sins he imagined, but those which I have
920 XIII | and with them he captured Imola and Forli; but afterwards,
921 XVI | the very first trouble and imperilled by whatever may be the first
922 XXV | Pope Julius II went to work impetuously in all his affairs, and
923 XII(21) | Charles VIII seized Italy, implying that it was only necessary
924 XXII | servants is of no little importance to a prince, and they are
925 XVI | he made many wars without imposing any extraordinary tax on
926 XI | barons of Rome reduced to impotence, and, through the chastisements
927 XI | Julius not only followed, but improved upon, and he intended to
928 XXVI | And these are the kind of improvements which confer reputation
929 XXI | should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear
930 IX | And do not let any one impugn this statement with the
931 XXV | has given to them their impulse, you will see it to be an
932 XVII | new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new
933 XVII | confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render
934 XIV | organized and drilled, to follow incessantly the chase, by which he accustoms
935 XXV | deviate from what nature inclines him to, and also because,
936 XXI(44) | united by common descent, and included individuals connected by
937 III | consume on the garrison all income from the state, so that
938 XII | slowly, long delayed and inconsiderable, but the losses sudden and
939 VII | elevated them — two most inconstant and unstable things. Neither
940 III | destroyed the minor powers, he increased the strength of one of the
941 VI | side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily
942 XVI | reputation for liberality to incur a name for rapacity which
943 III | because the malady has become incurable; for it happens in this,
944 X | already done, the ills are incurred, and there is no longer
945 XV | not make himself uneasy at incurring a reproach for those vices
946 XXI | at his mercy, yet he is indebted to him, and there is established
947 II | I will keep to the order indicated above, and discuss how such
948 XVIII(40)| Testina, being used to signify indifferently every shade of belief, as
949 XIX | and considered a great indignity by every one), and the other,
950 XXI(44) | common descent, and included individuals connected by marriage. Perhaps
951 III | persuasions of Philip ever induce the Romans to be his friends
952 XX | consider the reasons which induced those to favour him who
953 III | themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against
954 XIX | corrupting them, so that he might indulge his rapacity upon the people;
955 XIX | one has to give them some indulgence, that is soon done; none
956 XIV | increase his resources with industry in such a way that they
957 XVIII(40)| the religion,” a phrase inevitably employed to designate the
958 XIX | those emperors who through inexperience had need of special favour
959 VIII | Nevertheless, he accompanied his infamies with so much ability of
960 VIII | his fortunes always led an infamous life. Nevertheless, he accompanied
961 XVII(36) | throne unsettled, and an infant state,~Bid me defend my
962 XXVI | the defects of both these infantries, to invent a new one, which
963 XII | demonstrate further the infelicity of these arms. The mercenary
964 XXIII | constraint. Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever
965 XIII | servitude of Greece to the infidels.~Therefore, let him who
966 XIX | which are deliberately inflicted with a resolved and desperate
967 XIX | state, the Bolognese, having information that there was one of the
968 XVIII(39)| sempre gli succederono gli inganni (ad votum).” The words “
969 III | changes arise chiefly from an inherent difficulty which there is
970 XIX | the son of Marcus, he had inherited it, and he had only to follow
971 XVII | from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his
972 XIX | to commit every kind of iniquity against the people; and
973 XXII | himself may not have the initiative, yet he can recognize the
974 XIX | soldiers, caring little about injuring the people. Which course
975 XXI | and not anticipating any innovations; thus they did not perceive
976 VI | order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those
977 VI | to inquire whether these innovators can rely on themselves or
978 XIX | this difficulty of giving inordinate satisfaction to their soldiers
979 XXIII | concerning the things of which he inquired; also, on learning that
980 XXIII | he ought to be a constant inquirer, and afterwards a patient
981 XXIII | those things of which he inquires, and of none others; but
982 XIII | not truly wise; and this insight is given to few. And if
983 XXI | and glory, from being an insignificant king to be the foremost
984 XXVI | these wrongs and barbarous insolencies. It is seen also that she
985 XVII | entirely to his easy nature. Insomuch that someone in the Senate,
986 XVII | Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that,
987 III | the Romans did in these instances what all prudent princes
988 XI | prevail; and through the instrumentality of the Duke Valentino, and
989 XXVI | springs entirely from the insufficiency of the leaders, since those
990 XII | ravaged by Ferdinand, and insulted by the Switzers. The principle
991 III | Duke Lodovico1 to raise insurrections on the borders; but to cause
992 XVIII | faith, and to live with integrity and not with craft. Nevertheless
993 XXII | there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by
994 XIII | his own forces.~I was not intending to go beyond Italian and
995 XXIII | understands what he wishes or intends to do, and no one can rely
996 XII | others contrary to your intentions; but if the captain is not
997 V | without his friendship and interest, and does its utmost to
998 XXI | advantageous for your state not to interfere in our war, nothing can
999 X | the field without being interfered with. And whoever should
1000 XXI | erroneous; because by not interfering you will be left, without
1001 XXI | set unusual examples in internal affairs, similar to those
1002 III | state of Lombardy by his intervention. I will not blame the course
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