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1003 IX | with great ease, either by intrigue or open defiance; and the
1004 III | that such a one will be introduced by those who are discontented,
1005 VI | to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
1006 XI(19) | Charles VIII invaded Italy in 1494.
1007 XXI | declare yourself, you will invariably fall a prey to the conqueror,
1008 XXV | and France, either this invasion would not have made the
1009 XXVI | both these infantries, to invent a new one, which will resist
1010 VIII | solemn banquet to which he invited Giovanni Fogliani and the
1011 XXIII(45)| Sforza; and thus became involved in Italian politics.
1012 XXII | than of yours, and seeking inwardly his own profit in everything,
1013 VII | Greece, in the cities of Ionia and of the Hellespont, where
1014 XIX | show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in
1015 VIII | they seated than soldiers issued from secret places and slaughtered
1016 XII(26) | 1487. “Primo capitano in Italia.”—Machiavelli. Count of
1017 XXVI | Che l’antico valore~Negli italici cuor non e ancor morto.49~
1018 XIX | there is nothing but fear, jealousy, prospect of punishment
1019 III(4) | Louis XII divorced his wife, Jeanne, daughter of Louis XI, and
1020 XIII(30) | Joannes Cantacuzenus, born 1300,
1021 XII(24) | knight whose name was Sir John Hawkwood. He fought in the
1022 X | raise a sufficient army to join battle against any one who
1023 XXI | of any one. The Venetians joined with France against the
1024 XVIII | quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye
1025 XVIII | prudent to challenge, one judges by the result.~For that
1026 XIX | subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain
1027 XVII | he must do it on proper justification and for manifest cause,
1028 III | Venetians in Lombardy was justified by the excuse that by it
1029 III | places, which may be as keys to that state, for it is
1030 XII | and their soldiers, not killing in the fray, but taking
1031 XXII | enriching him, doing him kindnesses, sharing with him the honours
1032 VII | maintain friendship with kings and princes in such a way
1033 XII(24) | Giovanni Acuto. An English knight whose name was Sir John
1034 XII(24) | wars in France, and was knighted by Edward III; afterwards
1035 XVIII | therefore, being compelled knowingly to adopt the beast, ought
1036 XXV | that it is not necessary to labour much in affairs, but to
1037 VIII | and although he had not laboured to acquire anything except
1038 XX | to mount higher, as by a ladder which his enemies have raised.
1039 XII(23) | of Naples, the widow of Ladislao, King of Naples.~
1040 III | Ferrara, the Bentivoglio, my lady of Forli, the Lords of Faenza,
1041 XIII(33) | armaments seemed to show a most lamentable ignorance of the conditions
1042 XX(43) | Galeazzo Sforza and Lucrezia Landriani, born 1463, died 1509. It
1043 Ded | just as those who draw landscapes place themselves below in
1044 III | thrown themselves into his lap, whilst he aggrandized the
1045 VII | fortune has thrown into their laps, and that those foundations,
1046 XVII | difficult to find and sooner lapse. But when a prince is with
1047 XXI(44) | an artel. In some of the larger towns there are artels of
1048 XV | affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere,
1049 XXVI | of desolation.~Although lately some spark may have been
1050 XVIII | contesting38, the one by the law, the other by force; the
1051 VIII | properly used, if of evil it is lawful to speak well, that are
1052 VII(8) | Le radici e corrispondenze,”
1053 XII | Duke of Milan under his leadership), and, on the other hand,
1054 IX | the other point — where a leading citizen becomes the prince
1055 XVI | and hated; and liberality leads you to both. Therefore it
1056 XXIII | which he inquired; also, on learning that any one, on any consideration,
1057 Ded | shortest time all that I have learnt in so many years, and with
1058 XVIII | ever be wanting to a prince legitimate reasons to excuse this nonobservance.
1059 XII | this, used every art to lessen fatigue and danger to themselves
1060 XXI | his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from
1061 XVIII | take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips
1062 XX(43) | sent as envy on 1499. A letter from Fortunati to the countess
1063 VII(9) | Sinigalia, and along with his letters to his chiefs in Florence
1064 XIII(33) | citizen acknowledged his liability to fight for the State,
1065 XXVI | CHAPTER XXVI~AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS~
1066 XIII | good fortune and valour liberated France from the English,
1067 XII | but taking prisoners and liberating without ransom. They did
1068 XXVI | letting Italy at last see her liberator appear. Nor can one express
1069 XVII | which gave his soldiers more licence than is consistent with
1070 XIX | being accustomed to live licentiously under Commodus, could not
1071 XVIII(38)| ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.”
1072 XIV | open out, how the plains lie, and to understand the nature
1073 III | can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious
1074 III | second time, they are not so lightly lost afterwards, because
1075 XIX | to the principality; and likewise it would have been utterly
1076 IX | rule nor manage them to his liking. But he who reaches sovereignty
1077 XXVI | there is great valour in the limbs whilst it fails in the head.
1078 VI | distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of
1079 XVII | love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing
1080 XVIII | lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with
1081 XXIII | and afterwards a patient listener concerning the things of
1082 VII | caution, cannot find a more lively example than the actions
1083 XX | who in your old state were living near you.~3. Our forefathers,
1084 XIV | something of the nature of localities, and gets to find out how
1085 XIV | and observation of that locality, he understands with ease
1086 XVII | the Roman soldiery. The Locrians were laid waste by a legate
1087 VIII | received by the Fermans, and he lodged him in his own house, where,
1088 XII(21) | hands, to mark up their lodgings, rather than with swords
1089 III | possession of Italy for the longest period; and you will see
1090 IX | that the nobles ought to be looked at mainly in two ways: that
1091 III | that he should retain any lordship over the country. Because
1092 Ded | DEDICATION~To the Magnificent Lorenzo Di Piero De’ Medici:~Those
1093 VII(11) | Ramiro d’Orco. Ramiro de Lorqua.
1094 XII | inconsiderable, but the losses sudden and portentous.~And
1095 XXV | therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they
1096 XIX | all men of modest life, lovers of justice, enemies to cruelty,
1097 XVII | the conclusion that, men loving according to their own will
1098 XXIII | adduce a modern example. Fra Luca, the man of affairs to Maximilian45,
1099 VII | down upon Pisa. After this, Lucca and Siena yielded at once,
1100 III | Camerino, of Piombino, the Lucchesi, the Pisans, the Sienese —
1101 XX(43) | daughter of Galeazzo Sforza and Lucrezia Landriani, born 1463, died
1102 VI | whilst the others defend lukewarmly, in such wise that the prince
1103 XIX | delicate food and other luxuries, which caused him to be
1104 III | by them, the kingdom of Macedonia was humbled, Antiochus was
1105 XVIII(40)| Coryphaeus of this tribe, Nicolo Machiavel, laid down this for a master
1106 XXI(44) | in Russia to-day, cf. Sir Mackenzie Wallace’s “Russia,” ed.
1107 VII | them, called a meeting at Magione, in the territory of Perugia.
1108 IX | citizens who are raised to the magistracy, and who, especially in
1109 VIII | town and besieged the chief magistrate in the palace, so that in
1110 VII | be severe and gracious, magnanimous and liberal, to destroy
1111 IX | nobles ought to be looked at mainly in two ways: that is to
1112 XIX | nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and
1113 XIX | have opened your mind to a malcontent you have given him the material
1114 XIII(33) | longer recognized.”—Pall Mall Gazette, 15th May 1906.
1115 XIX | affairs of reproach to the management of others, and keep those
1116 XXVI | the ways of God have been manifested beyond example: the sea
1117 XXV | refuse him soldiers without manifestly offending him. Therefore
1118 XXVI | forth water, it has rained manna, everything has contributed
1119 III | friends; the Marquess of Mantua, the Duke of Ferrara, the
1120 VII(9) | 1466. He married Bianca Maria Visconti, a natural daughter
1121 III | became his friends; the Marquess of Mantua, the Duke of Ferrara,
1122 XIV | Francesco Sforza, through being martial, from a private person became
1123 IV | are remembered no one will marvel at the ease with which Alexander
1124 XXIII(45)| Empire. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Charles the
1125 XXV | she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather
1126 XVIII(38)| Contesting,” i.e. “striving for mastery.” Mr Burd points out that
1127 VIII | before, was brought up by his maternal uncle, Giovanni Fogliani,
1128 XXI(44) | similarity, has, Mr Aylmer Maude assures me, no connection
1129 XVII | in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the corrupter
1130 XIX | frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of
1131 X | PRINCIPALITIES OUGHT TO BE MEASURED~IT IS necessary to consider
1132 VII | conceal his mind that, by the mediation of Signor Paolo [Orsini] —
1133 III | until they approach, the medicine is no longer in time because
1134 XV | professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among
1135 III | new, but is, as it were, a member of a state which, taken
1136 II | duration of his rule the memories and motives that make for
1137 XV | considered presumptuous in mentioning it again, especially as
1138 VI | Moses, he having been a mere executor of the will of
1139 III | Italy, this other partition merited blame, for it had not the
1140 III | was driven out; yet the merits of the Achaeans and Aetolians
1141 XXVI | Genoa, Vaila, Bologna, Mestre.48~If, therefore, your illustrious
1142 XXVI(48) | Vaila, 1509; Bologna, 1511; Mestri, 1513.
1143 XXI(44) | his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906). Institutions of
1144 XXI | related of Messer Bernabo da Milano, who, when he had the opportunity,
1145 VIII | for harsh measures; and mild ones will not help you,
1146 III | there, and he offends a minority only of the citizens from
1147 III | retain them. Nor is there any miracle in this, but much that is
1148 XXV(46) | of the business of this miserable universe.” Sorel’s “Eastern
1149 XIV | over and above the other misfortunes already mentioned, cannot
1150 III | matters he had not made some mistakes. The king, however, having
1151 XVII | ought to take care not to misuse this clemency. Cesare Borgia
1152 XII | to employ cavalry, with a moderate force of which they were
1153 XVI | becoming so, and had not moderated his expenses, he would have
1154 XIX | Alexander, being all men of modest life, lovers of justice,
1155 VII(9) | in his “Descritione del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino
1156 XVII | novitas me talia cogunt~Moliri, et late fines custode tueri.36~
1157 IV | King of France. The entire monarchy of the Turk is governed
1158 VII | awaited him for more than a month. In Rome, although but half
1159 VII | such a way that in a few months all attachment to the factions
1160 XXI | shameless as to become a monument of ingratitude by oppressing
1161 XXI | clearing his kingdom of the Moors; nor could there be a more
1162 III(1) | Duke Lodovico was Lodovico Moro, a son of Francesco Sforza,
1163 XXVI | italici cuor non e ancor morto.49~
1164 XIX | himself to be governed by his mother, he became despised, the
1165 II | his rule the memories and motives that make for change are
1166 XII(21) | This is one of the bons mots of Alexander VI, and refers
1167 VI | brought them the material to mould into the form which seemed
1168 XX | overcoming them, and by them to mount higher, as by a ladder which
1169 VIII | these murders Oliverotto, mounted on horseback, rode up and
1170 XVII | Hence Virgil, through the mouth of Dido, excuses the inhumanity
1171 XXV | accustomed boldness and energy, a move which made Spain and the
1172 XXV | king, having observed the movement, and desiring to make the
1173 IV | themselves the heads of fresh movements against you, and as you
1174 IX | the people, builds on the mud,’ for this is true when
1175 VIII | few in the commencement, multiply with time rather than decrease.
1176 XVIII(38)| Cicero’s “De Officiis”:~“Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi,
1177 III | these matters I spoke at Nantes with Rouen, when Valentino,6
1178 XXIV | of a new prince are more narrowly observed than those of an
1179 XIII | partly mercenary and partly national, both of which arms together
1180 III | need of the goodwill of the natives.~For these reasons Louis
1181 XXII | useless. Therefore, it follows necessarily that, if Pandolfo was not
1182 XVIII | and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive
1183 VIII | either by some wicked or nefarious ways, one ascends to the
1184 XV | ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought
1185 XXVI | corto:~Che l’antico valore~Negli italici cuor non e ancor
1186 VII(9) | tenuto dal duca Valentino nello ammazzare Vitellozzo Vitelli,”
1187 VIII | any attentions due to his nephew, and he caused him to be
1188 XXI | friend will demand your neutrality, whilst he who is your friend
1189 XX(43) | learned young Florentine noble, secretary to my Lords of
1190 XIX | and the sons remain only noblemen. And this being an ancient
1191 XIX | that some of them lived nobly and showed great qualities
1192 | nobody
1193 XVIII(39)| Nondimanco sempre gli succederono gli
1194 XVIII | legitimate reasons to excuse this nonobservance. Of this endless modern
1195 III | Burgundy, Gascony, and Normandy, which have been bound to
1196 VIII | esteemed less than the most notable captain. Nevertheless, his
1197 VII | this point is worthy of notice, and to be imitated by others,
1198 XVII | saying:~Res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt~Moliri,
1199 V | hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia, dismantled them, and did
1200 XVI | he does not take, who are numberless, and meanness towards those
1201 XVIII | to the Centaur Chiron to nurse, who brought them up in
1202 XX | come to bloodshed, yet they nursed these disputes amongst them,
1203 XXI(44) | or societies,” “in arti o in tribu.” “Arti” were craft
1204 XVIII | asserting, or who with greater oaths would affirm a thing, yet
1205 XXVI | who are capable are not obedient, and each one seems to himself
1206 XIX | therefore, to answer these objections, I will recall the characters
1207 XIX | one of the most important objects a prince can have.~Among
1208 XVIII | to, keep faith when such observance may be turned against him,
1209 XXV | similarly, two men by different observances are equally successful,
1210 XIV | means of the knowledge and observation of that locality, he understands
1211 IX | cannot rely upon what he observes in quiet times, when citizens
1212 XX | overcome the difficulties and obstacles by which they are confronted,
1213 XIX | friend, or a thoroughly obstinate enemy of the prince, to
1214 XXIII | known, they are at once obstructed by those men whom he has
1215 IX | by his authority. He who obtains sovereignty by the assistance
1216 VIII(16) | crudelta” than the more obvious “cruelties.”
1217 IV | and many more; this is not occasioned by the little or abundance
1218 III | assisting Pope Alexander to occupy the Romagna. It never occurred
1219 III | occupy the Romagna. It never occurred to him that by this action
1220 XVI | with his liberality, having offended many and rewarded few, he
1221 XIII | applicable to this subject. David offered himself to Saul to fight
1222 XXIII | discourage every one from offering advice unless he asks it;
1223 XXVI | opportunity than the present offers, for their enterprises were
1224 VII | rank, honouring them with office and command in such a way
1225 IV | it as to a minister and official, and they do not bear him
1226 III | is not pillaged by your officials; the subjects are satisfied
1227 XVIII(38)| directly from Cicero’s “De Officiis”:~“Nam cum sint duo genera
1228 XXV(46) | accustomed to say: “The older one gets the more convinced
1229 IX | cannot give fixed rules, so I omit them; but, I repeat, it
1230 XXV | Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions46, but that
1231 XXI | from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;
1232 XII | conquered, some have been opposed, and others have turned
1233 XIX | difficulty of these two opposing humours, were inclined to
1234 IX | by him. But one who, in opposition to the people, becomes a
1235 XXVI | which made us think he was ordained by God for our redemption,
1236 XIX | can have.~Among the best ordered and governed kingdoms of
1237 XIII | be unconquerable if the ordinance of Charles had been enlarged
1238 XXI | because it is found in ordinary affairs that one never seeks
1239 XIX | killed Niger, and settled oriental affairs, he returned to
1240 XVII | whilst those executions which originate with a prince offend the
1241 VII | been practised, it had not originated with him, but in the natural
1242 Ded | precious stones, and similar ornaments presented to princes, worthy
1243 VIII | Fermo, having been left an orphan many years before, was brought
1244 | ourselves
1245 VII | the duke, all of which he overcame with the help of the French.
1246 XXV | rivers, which when in flood overflows the plains, sweeping away
1247 VIII | not allowed himself to be overreached by Cesare Borgia, who took
1248 VI | Syracuse, nor did he, either, owe anything to fortune but
1249 XIII | community, they are found and paid by you, and a third party,
1250 VIII | chief magistrate in the palace, so that in fear the people
1251 XIII(33) | was no longer recognized.”—Pall Mall Gazette, 15th May 1906.
1252 VIII | But it appearing to him a paltry thing to serve under others,
1253 XVII(35) | between the Cancellieri and Panciatichi factions in 1502 and 1503.
1254 XVI | assisted in reaching the papacy by a reputation for liberality,
1255 XVIII(40)| with the sanction of the papal authorities. It may be that
1256 XVIII(40)| altogether faithful,” in the next paragraph. It is noteworthy that these
1257 XIX | of these the first is the parliament and its authority, because
1258 VIII | after he had committed this parricide, he was strangled, together
1259 XII | MERCENARIES~HAVING discoursed particularly on the characteristics of
1260 XX | unless one possesses the particulars of those states in which
1261 XX(43) | Catherine Sforza,” by Count Pasolini, translated by P. Sylvester,
1262 IX | to danger when they are passing from the civil to the absolute
1263 XXV | Venetians stand irresolute and passive, the latter from fear, the
1264 XXI | generally follow the neutral path, and are generally ruined.
1265 XVII | friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or
1266 XXI | practise their callings peaceably, both in commerce and agriculture,
1267 XXI(44) | possessing large capital, and pecuniarily responsible for the acts
1268 XII | who have also suffered the penalty.~I wish to demonstrate further
1269 III | left in the kingdom his own pensioner as king, he drove him out,
1270 III | ruling them; because the two peoples, preserving in other things
1271 XXI | innovations; thus they did not perceive that by these means he was
1272 XIII | which cannot fall to be perceived; for he, wishing to get
1273 VII | it well; for the Orsini, perceiving at length that the aggrandizement
1274 XXI | imagine that it can choose perfectly safe courses; rather let
1275 XII | ought to go in person and perform the duty of captain; the
1276 VI | difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain
1277 VIII | a thousand troubles and perils, and were afterwards boldly
1278 III | of Italy for the longest period; and you will see that he
1279 Ded | nor stuffed with rounded periods, nor with any extrinsic
1280 XXI(44) | much more complex kind— permanent associations, possessing
1281 V | held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed.
1282 XVIII(40)| reality of it hurtful and pernicious.’”
1283 III | a blunder ought never be perpetrated to avoid war, because it
1284 VIII | security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they
1285 VII | benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is
1286 XIV | from dukes became private persons. For among other evils which
1287 VI | and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to
1288 IX | a foundation there, and persuades himself that the people
1289 VI | difficult to fix them in that persuasion. And thus it is necessary
1290 III | their power, nor did the persuasions of Philip ever induce the
1291 III | the Lords of Faenza, of Pesaro, of Rimini, of Camerino,
1292 XXIII | with difficulty from this pest, and if they wish to defend
1293 XXVI | verified that saying of Petrarch:~Virtu contro al Furore~
1294 XIII | fight with Goliath, the Philistine champion, and, to give him
1295 XIX | the empire from Marcus the philosopher down to Maximinus; they
1296 XVIII(40)| witness “the religion,” a phrase inevitably employed to designate
1297 XVIII(40)| noteworthy that these two phrases, “contro alla fede” and “
1298 III | happens in this, as the physicians say it happens in hectic
1299 VII | executed and left on the piazza at Cesena with the block
1300 XV | imagination of it; for many have pictured republics and principalities
1301 XIII | he had them all cut to pieces, and afterwards made war
1302 Ded | the Magnificent Lorenzo Di Piero De’ Medici:~Those who strive
1303 XXVI | shields, got in under the pikes of the Germans and stood
1304 XVI | his army, supporting it by pillage, sack, and extortion, handling
1305 III | this, the country is not pillaged by your officials; the subjects
1306 XXI | he devoted himself with a pious cruelty to driving out and
1307 III | Piombino, the Lucchesi, the Pisans, the Sienese — everybody
1308 XVII(36) | my shores.~— Christopher Pitt
1309 Ded | themselves below in the plain to contemplate the nature
1310 XXV | could get away, with his plans arranged and everything
1311 XXI | always using religion as a plea, so as to undertake greater
1312 IX | take away authority when it pleases him.~Therefore, to make
1313 XXI | to the conqueror, to the pleasure and satisfaction of him
1314 XII | with armed gentlemen and plebeians they did valiantly. This
1315 XXIII | around him, and he, being pliant, is diverted from them.
1316 XIX | before the execution of his plot, in this case he has also
1317 VII | weak masters, who rather plundered their subjects than ruled
1318 XXVI | end to the ravaging and plundering of Lombardy, to the swindling
1319 XVIII(38)| striving for mastery.” Mr Burd points out that this passage is
1320 XIII | first, cannot discern the poison that is hidden in it, as
1321 XX | peace, but if war comes this policy proves fallacious.~4. Without
1322 XVIII(40)| for a master rule in his political scheme: ‘That the show of
1323 XVIII(40)| religion was helpful to the politician, but the reality of it hurtful
1324 XXIII(45)| became involved in Italian politics.
1325 XXV | human conjecture. Sometimes pondering over this, I am in some
1326 XII | but the losses sudden and portentous.~And as with these examples
1327 XVIII(37)| greater offence than any other portion of Machiavelli’s writings.”
1328 XVI | have reached the highest positions by having been liberal,
1329 XX | these things unless one possesses the particulars of those
1330 IV | Romans then became secure possessors. And when fighting afterwards
1331 XXI(44) | by an oath. “Tribu” were possibly gentile groups, united by
1332 XVIII(38)| beluarum;~confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.”
1333 XX | recover her state; and the posture of affairs was such at that
1334 VIII | This man, the son of a potter, through all the changes
1335 VII | to buy his goodwill), he pounced down upon Pisa. After this,
1336 XXVI | led the way, the rock has poured forth water, it has rained
1337 XVI | despised, or else, in avoiding poverty, rapacious and hated. And
1338 XVII(36) | defend my realms with all my pow’rs,~And guard with these
1339 XI | the pontificate weak and powerless. And although there might
1340 XXIII | because of his following a practice the opposite to the above;
1341 VIII | through its ranks to be Praetor of Syracuse. Being established
1342 XIX | who had been killed by the praetorian soldiers; and under this
1343 VI | enterprise, have they to use prayers or can they use force? In
1344 VIII | inasmuch as he attained pre-eminence, as is shown above, not
1345 XVI | those who wished to become pre-eminent in Rome; but if he had survived
1346 XVIII | not well to name, never preaches anything else but peace
1347 XVII | promises, has neglected other precautions, is ruined; because friendships
1348 VI | although he had so great a preceptor. And in examining their
1349 VII | do not know what better precepts to give a new prince than
1350 III | is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about either
1351 XIX | ferocity by having, through his prefects in Rome and elsewhere in
1352 XXIII | speak, the more he shall be preferred; outside of these, he should
1353 XI | thus from the ambitions of prelates arise disorders and tumults
1354 XXVI | Virtu contro al Furore~Prendera l’arme, e fia il combatter
1355 XIX | if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have
1356 III | ones, for which they must prepare with every energy, because,
1357 IV | them; they have their own prerogatives, nor can the king take these
1358 Ded | stones, and similar ornaments presented to princes, worthy of their
1359 XIII | Orsini and Vitelli; whom presently, on handling and finding
1360 XV | effects his ruin than his preservation; for a man who wishes to
1361 XVII | their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment
1362 VII | under a most excellent president, wherein all cities had
1363 Ded | those who regard it as a presumption if a man of low and humble
1364 VI | prince from a private station presupposes either ability or fortune,
1365 VII | the minister. Under this pretence he took Ramiro, and one
1366 XVIII | characteristic, and to be a great pretender and dissembler; and men
1367 III | ambition of Alexander, and to prevent his becoming the master
1368 XXIV | HAVE LOST THEIR STATES~THE previous suggestions, carefully observed,
1369 XXI | you will invariably fall a prey to the conqueror, to the
1370 XVI | for liberality. And to the price who goes forth with his
1371 XII | the Church consisting of priests and the republic of citizens
1372 XII(26) | Duke of Austria, in 1487. “Primo capitano in Italia.”—Machiavelli.
1373 XII | insulted by the Switzers. The principle that has guided them has
1374 XI | which all difficulties are prior to getting possession, because
1375 XIII | pass that he did not become prisoner to his enemies, they having
1376 XII | in the fray, but taking prisoners and liberating without ransom.
1377 VIII(16) | suggests that this word probably comes near the modern equivalent
1378 VII(9) | before “The Prince,” of the proceedings of the duke in his “Descritione
1379 XIX | had caused himself to be proclaimed emperor; the other in the
1380 VII(9) | Milan, on whose death he procured his own elevation to the
1381 XVII | virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. And shortsighted
1382 XV | to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with
1383 XXI | ability, and to honour the proficient in every art. At the same
1384 Ded | reflected upon it with great and prolonged diligence, I now send, digested
1385 XVII | relying entirely on their promises, has neglected other precautions,
1386 VII | good governor. Thereupon he promoted Messer Ramiro d’Orco11,
1387 III | subjects are satisfied by prompt recourse to the prince;
1388 VI | Hence it is that all armed prophets have conquered, and the
1389 XXVI | whether the present times were propitious to a new prince, and whether
1390 XIV | Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the
1391 XII | principalities as in the beginning I proposed to discuss, and having considered
1392 XVIII(38)| alterum per vim; cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum;~
1393 XIX | nothing but fear, jealousy, prospect of punishment to terrify
1394 VII | had many immediate and prospective difficulties. Firstly, he
1395 VII | remedy had he continued to prosper, as he was prospering the
1396 VII | continued to prosper, as he was prospering the year that Alexander
1397 V | what ever you may do or provide against, they never forget
1398 IV | kingdom except those they provoked themselves.~But it is impossible
1399 II | his ancestors, and to deal prudently with circumstances as they
1400 X | and they always keep in public depots enough for one year’
1401 XVIII(40)| Testina edition, which was published with the sanction of the
1402 XVII | insolence of the legate punished, owing entirely to his easy
1403 XXI | some method of rewarding or punishing him, which would be much
1404 X | of the city, and on the pursuit of which the people are
1405 IX | fail to do this through pusillanimity and a natural want of courage,
1406 IV | an acquisition, such as Pyrrhus and many more; this is not
1407 IX | who does not fail in other qualifications, and who, by his resolution
1408 XVIII | appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally
1409 XII(21) | necessary for him to send his quartermasters to chalk up the billets
1410 XIV | surprise his enemy, to select quarters, to lead armies, to array
1411 XII | having been engaged by Queen Johanna23 of Naples, left
1412 XXIV | who was conquered by Titus Quintius, had not much territory
1413 XIII | finished, were not willing to quit; this was the beginning
1414 XVII | composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign
1415 VII(8) | Le radici e corrispondenze,” their
1416 VII(14) | Vincula; San Giorgio was Raffaells Riaxis, and Ascanio was
1417 XXV | compare her to one of those raging rivers, which when in flood
1418 XXVI | poured forth water, it has rained manna, everything has contributed
1419 V | ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time
1420 XIII | take Pisa, whereby they ran more danger than at any
1421 XII | prisoners and liberating without ransom. They did not attack towns
1422 III | the Venetians realize the rashness of the course taken by them,
1423 XII | Charles, robbed by Louis, ravaged by Ferdinand, and insulted
1424 XXVI | wounds and put an end to the ravaging and plundering of Lombardy,
1425 XX | driven by Cesare Borgia, razed to the foundations all the
1426 IX | to his liking. But he who reaches sovereignty by popular favour
1427 XIV | Scipio Cyrus. And whoever reads the life of Cyrus, written
1428 XVIII(40)| the politician, but the reality of it hurtful and pernicious.’”
1429 III | Then could the Venetians realize the rashness of the course
1430 XVIII | what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those
1431 XII(21) | Charles had conquered the realm of Naples, and lost it again,
1432 XVII(36) | state,~Bid me defend my realms with all my pow’rs,~And
1433 XIII | event, so that he did not reap the fruit of his rash choice;
1434 VIII | unsettling men he will be able to reassure them, and win them to himself
1435 IV | CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF
1436 IV | Hence arose those frequent rebellions against the Romans in Spain,
1437 III | true that, after acquiring rebellious provinces a second time,
1438 VII | actions of the duke are recalled, I do not know how to blame
1439 | recently
1440 XIX | consider that a prince ought to reckon conspiracies of little account
1441 XX | forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to
1442 VII | examples within our own recollection, and these are Francesco
1443 IV | principalities of which one has record are found to be governed
1444 X | speak of it again should it recur. In the second case one
1445 XXVI | remarkable men who have redeemed their country, it is necessary
1446 III | see), they can be quickly redressed, but when, through not having
1447 XIII(33) | night in the debate on the reduction of armaments seemed to show
1448 XII(21) | mots of Alexander VI, and refers to the ease with which Charles
1449 XX | them, and as a place of refuge from a first attack. I praise
1450 II | to the usurper, he will regain it.~We have in Italy, for
1451 III | having acquired Lombardy, regained at once the authority which
1452 XIV | the other by study.~As regards action, he ought above all
1453 XXI(44) | which now signifies a “regimental company.” In both words
1454 Ded | your eyes to these lower regions, you will see how unmeritedly
1455 XVII | new, saying:~Res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt~
1456 VII | far-reaching aims, could not have regulated his conduct otherwise, and
1457 XIX | were oppressed by him, he reigned successfully; for his valour
1458 VIII | discuss with them things relating to the Republic, and at
1459 VII | excepted; the latter from their relationship and obligations, the former
1460 XXV | namely, that the prince who relies entirely upon fortune is
1461 XVIII(40)| Observe that the word “religione” was suffered to stand in
1462 III | the prince, with little reluctance, takes the opportunity of
1463 XVII | you. And that prince who, relying entirely on their promises,
1464 III | and those whom he offends, remaining poor and scattered, are
1465 III | hurt. Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to
1466 VIII | themselves.~Hence it is to be remarked that, in seizing a state,
1467 XIX | of the most efficacious remedies that a prince can have against
1468 XIX | expects to please them by his removal; but when the conspirator
1469 IV | such a way that he cannot replace his armies, there is nothing
1470 XVIII | from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five
1471 XIX | fear any danger in other reproaches.~It makes him hated above
1472 XII | has recently come to be repudiated in Italy, that the Pope
1473 X | hold military exercises in repute, and moreover have many
1474 XVIII | so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be
1475 XXV | circumstances had arisen which required him to go cautiously, his
1476 VII | have they the knowledge requisite for the position; because,
1477 XVII | to its being new, saying:~Res dura, et regni novitas me
1478 XXI | to say, when, without any reservation, he declares himself in
1479 III | caution; as long as the prince resides there it can only be wrested
1480 XII | enemies they had no means of resisting, and if they held to him
1481 IX | qualifications, and who, by his resolution and energy, keeps the whole
1482 XX | THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES OFTEN RESORT, ADVANTAGEOUS OR HURTFUL?~
1483 XII | that when arms have to be resorted to, either by a prince or
1484 XIX | and awed and the former respectful and satisfied. And because
1485 III | country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the
1486 XXI(44) | capital, and pecuniarily responsible for the acts of the individual
1487 XII | by nothing else than by resting all her hopes for many years
1488 XXIV | find someone later on to restore you. This again either does
1489 XI | Pope and the Venetians. To restrain the Venetians the union
1490 IX | more insecure, because it rests entirely on the goodwill
1491 XVIII | challenge, one judges by the result.~For that reason, let a
1492 IX | arises in cities one of three results, either a principality,
1493 VIII | horsemen, his friends and retainers; and he entreated Giovanni
1494 VII | and dismayed.~But let us return whence we started. I say
1495 XIX | settled oriental affairs, he returned to Rome and complained to
1496 XXIII | into effect they become revealed and known, they are at once
1497 XVI | that with his economy his revenues are enough, that he can
1498 XXVI | house; and if in so many revolutions in Italy, and in so many
1499 XX | service should have the most reward, excuse you. But when you
1500 XXI | would take some method of rewarding or punishing him, which
1501 XXI | the prince ought to offer rewards to whoever wishes to do
1502 VII(14) | San Giorgio was Raffaells Riaxis, and Ascanio was Cardinal
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