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1503 VIII | all the senators and the richest of the people; these dead,
1504 XI | fortune nor wisdom could rid him of these annoyances.
1505 XIX | captain, that it would be right to go to Rome and avenge
1506 IX | for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles,
1507 XVII | loyalty. And if this be rightly considered, he will be seen
1508 XVII(35) | During the rioting between the Cancellieri
1509 VII | authority, not to leave it at risk by trusting either to the
1510 XVII | which follow murders or robberies; for these are wont to injure
1511 VIII | Oliverotto, mounted on horseback, rode up and down the town and
1512 XXI(44) | with “ars” or “arte.” Its root is that of the verb “rotisya,”
1513 XXI(44) | be only another form of “rota,” which now signifies a “
1514 XXI(44) | root is that of the verb “rotisya,” to bind oneself by an
1515 Ded | words, nor stuffed with rounded periods, nor with any extrinsic
1516 XX | expected, because, after the rout at Vaila, one party at once
1517 VII(13) | Julius II was Giuliano della Rovere, Cardinal of San Pietro
1518 XVII(36) | my realms with all my pow’rs,~And guard with these severities
1519 V | retain them otherwise than by ruining them. And he who becomes
1520 III | principalities; for men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better
1521 XXI | avoid one trouble without running into another; but prudence
1522 XVI | to draw back from it, he runs at once into the reproach
1523 XVI | supporting it by pillage, sack, and extortion, handling
1524 XIX | and benignant, came to a sad end except Marcus; he alone
1525 XII | will be seen to have acted safely and gloriously so long as
1526 V | liberty to rest; so that the safest way is to destroy them or
1527 XVIII(40)| which was published with the sanction of the papal authorities.
1528 IV | dividing his kingdom into sanjaks, he sends there different
1529 XIII(33) | allegations that the Roman Empire sank under the weight of its
1530 XII | sent who does not turn out satisfactorily, it ought to recall him,
1531 VI | our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his
1532 VI | theirs, at least it will savour of it. Let him act like
1533 VI | that one who writes of him says he wanted nothing but a
1534 XIII | enlarged or maintained.~But the scanty wisdom of man, on entering
1535 IV | and died whilst it was yet scarcely settled (whence it might
1536 IX | always be in doubtful times a scarcity of men whom he can trust.
1537 XVIII(40)| master rule in his political scheme: ‘That the show of religion
1538 XXI | as to undertake greater schemes, he devoted himself with
1539 XII | of the Romagna. From the school of this man sprang, among
1540 XIX | he persuaded the army in Sclavonia, of which he was captain,
1541 XXVI | much from these foreign scourings, with what thirst for revenge,
1542 XVII | upon; and men have less scruple in offending one who is
1543 XXVI | manifested beyond example: the sea is divided, a cloud has
1544 XXI(44) | always during the working season members of an artel. In
1545 XXI | spectacles at convenient seasons of the year; and as every
1546 VII | that pretext from the Pope. Secondly, by winning to himself all
1547 XXII | CHAPTER XXII~CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES~THE choice of
1548 XX(43) | young Florentine noble, secretary to my Lords of the Ten,
1549 XXIII | above; for the emperor is a secretive man — he does not communicate
1550 XIX | that they will conspire secretly, from which a prince can
1551 | seem
1552 XXIV | of wisdom.~And if those seigniors are considered who have
1553 XXIII | full, because men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and
1554 X | and the long siege and self-interest will make them forget their
1555 XVIII(39)| Nondimanco sempre gli succederono gli inganni (
1556 VIII | soldiers killed all the senators and the richest of the people;
1557 IV | kingdom into sanjaks, he sends there different administrators,
1558 XXIII | With these councillors, separately and collectively, he ought
1559 XII(22) | Battle of Caravaggio, 15th September 1448.~
1560 XXI(44) | marriage. Perhaps our words “septs” or “clans” would be most
1561 XIX | he has also to fear the sequel to the crime; because on
1562 III | lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore
1563 XII | wish to discuss them more seriously, in order that, having seen
1564 XVIII(40)| Huguenot heresy. South in his Sermon IX, p. 69, ed. 1843, comments
1565 XX | them than from those who, serving him in too much security,
1566 XIII | was the beginning of the servitude of Greece to the infidels.~
1567 XXI | as great enterprises and setting a fine example. We have
1568 VII(8) | correspondency” in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1569 VII | of things for new, to be severe and gracious, magnanimous
1570 VII | because he knew that the past severity had caused some hatred against
1571 XVIII(40)| signify indifferently every shade of belief, as witness “the
1572 IX | prince, so that under his shadow they can give vent to their
1573 XXI | amity; and men are never so shameless as to become a monument
1574 IX | that is to say, they either shape their course in such a way
1575 XXII | him, doing him kindnesses, sharing with him the honours and
1576 XIX | the one, his having kept sheep in Thrace, which brought
1577 XXI | yourself loses, you may be sheltered by him, and whilst he is
1578 X | to defend themselves by sheltering behind walls. The first
1579 XXVI | and with the aid of their shields, got in under the pikes
1580 III | is injured; through the shifting of the garrison up and down
1581 IV | different administrators, and shifts and changes them as he chooses.
1582 VII | measures resist the first shock. Of these four things, at
1583 XVII(36) | with these severities my shores.~— Christopher Pitt
1584 Ded | of understanding in the shortest time all that I have learnt
1585 XVII | produce this effect. And shortsighted writers admire his deeds
1586 IX | to it, but rather a happy shrewdness. I say then that such a
1587 IX | own ambitious ends they shun binding themselves, it is
1588 III | rather that every door was shut to him owing to the conduct
1589 XVIII(38)| confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.”
1590 XII(24) | He was born about 1320 at Sible Hedingham, a village in
1591 VII | powerful hostile armies, and sick unto death. Yet there were
1592 VII | of Alexander and his own sickness frustrated his designs.
1593 III | Lucchesi, the Pisans, the Sienese — everybody made advances
1594 XII(26) | fighting for Venice against Sigismund, Duke of Austria, in 1487. “
1595 VIII | Republic, and at a given signal the soldiers killed all
1596 XXI(44) | form of “rota,” which now signifies a “regimental company.”
1597 XVIII(40)| the Testina, being used to signify indifferently every shade
1598 VII | that, by the mediation of Signor Paolo [Orsini] — whom the
1599 XX(43) | appointment: “I have been with the signori,” wrote Fortunati, “to learn
1600 XVIII | example I cannot pass over in silence. Alexander VI did nothing
1601 VIII | to me that I must not be silent on them, although one could
1602 XXI(44) | artel,” despite its apparent similarity, has, Mr Aylmer Maude assures
1603 VII | reconciled, so that their simplicity brought them into his power
1604 XV | lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard,
1605 XIX | unheard of that, after endless single murders, he killed a large
1606 XII | shown princes and republics, single-handed, making the greatest progress,
1607 XXVI | better soldiers. And although singly they are good, altogether
1608 II | of it, whenever anything sinister happens to the usurper,
1609 XVIII(38)| De Officiis”:~“Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum
1610 XVIII(38)| vim; cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum;~confugiendum
1611 III | and what any one in his situation would have had for maintaining
1612 VII(8) | correspondency” in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1613 III | injure him had he not made a sixth by taking away their dominions
1614 XI | courageous pope, such as Sixtus [IV], yet neither fortune
1615 XII | but if the captain is not skilful, you are ruined in the usual
1616 VIII | issued from secret places and slaughtered Giovanni and the rest. After
1617 IV | his ministers, being all slaves and bondmen, can only be
1618 VIII | cannot be called talent to slay fellow-citizens, to deceive
1619 XI | the temporal power very slightly — yet now a king of France
1620 XIII | meet the enemy with his sling and his knife. In conclusion,
1621 XVIII | that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not
1622 XII | arms conquests come but slowly, long delayed and inconsiderable,
1623 XIX | reduce the matter into a small compass, I say that, on
1624 XI | baron and lord, though the smallest) have valued the temporal
1625 XXV | buildings, bearing away the soil from place to place; everything
1626 XII | him, for if he became the soldier of their enemies they had
1627 XIV | discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him
1628 VIII | designs, Oliverotto gave a solemn banquet to which he invited
1629 VII | will be seen that he laid solid foundations for his future
1630 XXI(44) | 1906). Institutions of a somewhat similar character, called “
1631 | somewhere
1632 XXV(46) | this miserable universe.” Sorel’s “Eastern Question.”
1633 XXVI | Tuscany, and cleanse those sores that for long have festered.
1634 IX | citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance
1635 VII | elected. But if he had been in sound health at the death of Alexander12,
1636 XVIII(40)| designate the Huguenot heresy. South in his Sermon IX, p. 69,
1637 VII | ought to have created a Spaniard Pope, and, failing him,
1638 XVI | first case he ought to be sparing, in the second he ought
1639 XXVI | desolation.~Although lately some spark may have been shown by one,
1640 XIX | attack, as I said Nabis the Spartan did.~But concerning his
1641 XIII(33) | Many speakers to the House the other night
1642 VIII(16) | Machiavelli’s thought when he speaks of “crudelta” than the more
1643 XIX | inexperience had need of special favour adhered more readily
1644 VII | side. The barbarity of this spectacle caused the people to be
1645 XXI | people with festivals and spectacles at convenient seasons of
1646 III | infantry. A prince does not spend much on colonies, for with
1647 VIII | citizens should see he had not spent his time in vain, he desired
1648 III | much temporal power to the spiritual, thus giving it greater
1649 III | And on these matters I spoke at Nantes with Rouen, when
1650 III | Because, if one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they
1651 XII | From the school of this man sprang, among others, Braccio and
1652 III | disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly
1653 XXVI | bear comparison, and this springs entirely from the insufficiency
1654 XVI | away your reputation if you squander that of others, but adds
1655 XVI | but adds to it; it is only squandering your own that injures you.~
1656 XII(28) | of the famous “Company of St George,” composed entirely
1657 XIX | state that may already be stable and firm.~
1658 XXI(44) | described by Mr Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (
1659 XXVI | undertaken, so that under its standard our native country may be
1660 III | French did not understand statecraft, meaning that otherwise
1661 IX | let any one impugn this statement with the trite proverb that ‘
1662 XXI | been given time to work steadily against him.~Again, it much
1663 VII | him, but in the natural sternness of the minister. Under this
1664 XXVI | this barbarous dominion stinks. Let, therefore, your illustrious
1665 XII | the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient
1666 XIII | turned to auxiliaries, and stipulated with Ferdinand29, King of
1667 XII | surround the camp either with stockade or ditch, nor did they campaign
1668 Ded | cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar ornaments presented
1669 XIV | country with friends, he often stopped and reasoned with them: “
1670 VII | such a way that the first storm will not overthrow them;
1671 VIII | committed this parricide, he was strangled, together with Vitellozzo,
1672 XXI | yourself and to make war strenuously; because, in the first case,
1673 XVIII(38)| Contesting,” i.e. “striving for mastery.” Mr Burd points
1674 VIII | and to do them all at one stroke so as not to have to repeat
1675 VI | fortune is established the strongest. Further, it facilitates
1676 XXVI | thirst for revenge, with what stubborn faith, with what devotion,
1677 XIX | are noteworthy to him who studies the affairs of those times.~
1678 Ded | or magnificent words, nor stuffed with rounded periods, nor
1679 III | to burden those who have submitted to him with his soldiery
1680 XIII | and his men-at-arms he has subordinated to others, for, being as
1681 XII | They did this because, subsisting on their pay and without
1682 XXVI | strength, dexterity, and subtlety. But when it comes to armies
1683 XVIII(39)| Nondimanco sempre gli succederono gli inganni (ad votum).”
1684 XXV | its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by
1685 XIX | oppressed by him, he reigned successfully; for his valour made him
1686 VII | first place, that a new successor to the Church might not
1687 XIX | here it must be noted that such-like deaths, which are deliberately
1688 XII | inconsiderable, but the losses sudden and portentous.~And as with
1689 Ded | will see how unmeritedly I suffer a great and continued malignity
1690 XIII | easily found if the rules suggested by me shall be reflected
1691 XXIV | THEIR STATES~THE previous suggestions, carefully observed, will
1692 VIII(16) | Mr Burd suggests that this word probably
1693 X | obedience to the emperor when it suits them, nor do they fear this
1694 XVIII(38)| posterius, si uti non licet superiore.”
1695 XVI | on his subjects, for he supplied his additional expenses
1696 X | of which the people are supported; they also hold military
1697 XVI | goes forth with his army, supporting it by pillage, sack, and
1698 XIV | possess, for it teaches him to surprise his enemy, to select quarters,
1699 VI | AND ABILITY~LET no one be surprised if, in speaking of entirely
1700 XII | encampments at night; they did not surround the camp either with stockade
1701 III | delinquents, to clear out the suspects, and to strengthen himself
1702 XXI | the minds of his people in suspense and admiration and occupied
1703 XIV | disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for
1704 XXI | Church and of the people to sustain his armies, and by that
1705 XII | its own arms, under the sway of one of its citizens than
1706 XXV | flood overflows the plains, sweeping away trees and buildings,
1707 Ded | have not embellished with swelling or magnificent words, nor
1708 VII | Messer Ramiro d’Orco11, a swift and cruel man, to whom he
1709 XXVI | plundering of Lombardy, to the swindling and taxing of the kingdom
1710 XII(21) | lodgings, rather than with swords to fight.”
1711 XX(43) | Pasolini, translated by P. Sylvester, 1898.
1712 XXVI | battalions, who follow the same tactics as the Swiss; when the Spaniards,
1713 VIII | Yet it cannot be called talent to slay fellow-citizens,
1714 XVII | dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt~Moliri, et late fines
1715 XII | Carmignola25, they had a taste of this mistake; for, having
1716 VIII | one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less;
1717 XVIII | This has been figuratively taught to princes by ancient writers,
1718 XXVI | Lombardy, to the swindling and taxing of the kingdom and of Tuscany,
1719 XVIII | that, as they had for a teacher one who was half beast and
1720 XIV | captain should possess, for it teaches him to surprise his enemy,
1721 XXVI | what devotion, with what tears. What door would be closed
1722 X | them by assault would be tedious and difficult, seeing they
1723 XVII | show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and
1724 XXIV | in the calm against the tempest), and when afterwards the
1725 VII | seek new alliances and to temporize with France in the expedition
1726 VII(9) | his “Descritione del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino nello
1727 XV | miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person
1728 VIII | were compelled to come to terms with Agathocles, and, leaving
1729 XVII | valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers,
1730 XI | the church, with which he terrified them; and the other, not
1731 XXII | his servant there is one test which never falls; when
1732 XIII | an instance from the Old Testament applicable to this subject.
1733 Ded | your Magnificence with some testimony of my devotion towards you,
1734 XVIII(40)| suffered to stand in the text of the Testina, being used
1735 XIX | often descending to the theatre to compete with gladiators,
1736 XII | of their soldiers by the Thebans, and after victory he took
1737 V | Spartans held Athens and Thebes, establishing there an oligarchy,
1738 Ded | and the weightiness of the theme shall make it acceptable.~
1739 | Thereupon
1740 X | such a way that every one thinks the taking of them by assault
1741 VII | aid, as has been observed. Thirdly, by converting the college
1742 XXVI | foreign scourings, with what thirst for revenge, with what stubborn
1743 XXV | prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where
1744 XIV | therefore, to have out of his thoughts this subject of war, and
1745 XIX | his having kept sheep in Thrace, which brought him into
1746 XIX | centurion, whom also he daily threatened, yet retained in his bodyguard;
1747 XXV(46) | Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this
1748 XIII | wishing to get Ferrara, threw himself entirely into the
1749 XVI | expenses out of his long thriftiness. The present King of Spain
1750 XII | so that she was forced to throw herself into the arms of
1751 XXIV | gain more men and bind far tighter than ancient blood; because
1752 XX | greatest ease, and they will be tightly held to serve the prince
1753 XII | all the other captains who till now have directed the arms
1754 III | they were both weak and timid, some afraid of the Church,
1755 VIII | does otherwise, either from timidity or evil advice, is always
1756 XXIV | he who was conquered by Titus Quintius, had not much territory
1757 XXV | happy to-day and ruined to-morrow without having shown any
1758 IX | binding themselves, it is a token that they are giving more
1759 II | change always leaves the toothing for another.~
1760 XXVI | order, beaten, despoiled, torn, overrun; and to have endured
1761 XIX(42) | he had been arrested and tortured for his alleged complicity
1762 XVIII | see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees
1763 XIX | their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live
1764 XI | ecclesiastical principalities, touching which all difficulties are
1765 VIII | Paolo Vitelli, that, being trained under his discipline, he
1766 XIX | who, either by birth or training, had no great authority,
1767 IV | impossible to hold with such tranquillity states constituted like
1768 VII(9) | Borgia (1478-1507) during the transactions which led up to the assassinations
1769 II | is sufficient only not to transgress the customs of his ancestors,
1770 XX(43) | Sforza,” by Count Pasolini, translated by P. Sylvester, 1898.
1771 VII(9) | Vitellozzo Vitelli,” etc., a translation of which is appended to
1772 VIII | his like, after infinite treacheries and cruelties, should live
1773 XIX | received from him, had by treachery sought to murder him, and
1774 XIX | valour to enable them to tread in his footsteps. Therefore
1775 XVIII | given, showing how many treaties and engagements have been
1776 XX | this difference in their treatment, which they quite understand,
1777 XXV | the plains, sweeping away trees and buildings, bearing away
1778 XI | yet now a king of France trembles before it, and it has been
1779 XXI | not aid him in the time of trial; and he who loses will not
1780 XVIII(40)| patron and Coryphaeus of this tribe, Nicolo Machiavel, laid
1781 V | their own laws, drawing a tribute, and establishing within
1782 IX | inasmuch as it can only be tried once. Therefore a wise prince
1783 XII | keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not
1784 IX | this statement with the trite proverb that ‘He who builds
1785 XII(24) | afterwards he collected a body of troops and went into Italy. These
1786 XXVI | can be no more faithful, truer, or better soldiers. And
1787 XIII | are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is
1788 XVII | Moliri, et late fines custode tueri.36~Nevertheless he ought
1789 XIII | neighbours, sent ten thousand Turks into Greece, who, on the
1790 XIX | against him, and murdered him.~Turning now to the opposite characters
1791 XV | another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious
1792 XIX | who always keeps round him twelve infantry and fifteen thousand
1793 VIII | commotion. And although he was twice routed by the Carthaginians,
1794 III | made the king master of two-thirds of Italy.~Let any one now
1795 IX(17) | Nabis, tyrant of Sparta, conquered by
1796 VII | it was the cause of his ultimate ruin.~
1797 VIII | by the Carthaginians, and ultimately besieged, yet not only was
1798 XII | the republic of citizens unaccustomed to arms, both commenced
1799 XIX | this reason they loved the unaspiring prince, whilst the soldiers
1800 VI | believed or of making the unbelievers to believe. Therefore such
1801 XV | one religious, another unbelieving, and the like. And I know
1802 VIII | brought up by his maternal uncle, Giovanni Fogliani, and
1803 XIII | kingdom of France would be unconquerable if the ordinance of Charles
1804 XXI(44) | company.” In both words the underlying idea is that of a body of
1805 XVIII | wishes39, because he well understood this side of mankind.~Therefore
1806 VII | made him desist from that undertaking; hence the duke decided
1807 IX | and is a man of courage, undismayed in adversity, who does not
1808 XXIII | things he does one day he undoes the next, and no one ever
1809 XIII | disadvantageous; for losing, one is undone, and winning, one is their
1810 XVI | the name of liberal, to unduly weigh down his people, and
1811 XV | he need not make himself uneasy at incurring a reproach
1812 XVII | general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly,
1813 XI | and the states, although unguarded, are not taken from them,
1814 XIX | happy end and the rest to unhappy ones. Because it would have
1815 XIX | cruelties were so great and so unheard of that, after endless single
1816 XIII(33) | said that this was ‘wholly unhistorical.’ He might well have added
1817 XVII | reconciled the Romagna, unified it, and restored it to peace
1818 IV | conqueror, but by the want of uniformity in the subject state.~
1819 III | him; whilst the rest being uninjured are easily kept quiet, and
1820 VII | time restored peace and unity with the greatest success.
1821 XXV(46) | business of this miserable universe.” Sorel’s “Eastern Question.”
1822 XIX | ever put to death by him unjudged; nevertheless, being considered
1823 XXV | WITHSTAND HER~IT is not unknown to me how many men have
1824 IX | being able to make and unmake them daily, and to give
1825 Ded | regions, you will see how unmeritedly I suffer a great and continued
1826 XVIII | mankind.~Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all
1827 XII | Johanna23 of Naples, left her unprotected, so that she was forced
1828 XXV | their force be neither so unrestrained nor so dangerous. So it
1829 XVII(36) | will, my fate,~A throne unsettled, and an infant state,~Bid
1830 VIII | them daily; and thus by not unsettling men he will be able to reassure
1831 XXV | men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out. For
1832 | unto
1833 XXIII | because men will always prove untrue to you unless they are kept
1834 XVIII(38)| sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem,~alterum
1835 XXI | assists a prince to set unusual examples in internal affairs,
1836 XIII | recent examples, but I am unwilling to leave out Hiero, the
1837 VII | Bologna, he saw them go very unwillingly to that attack. And as to
1838 Ded | I may consider this work unworthy of your countenance, nevertheless
1839 XVII | discipline. For this he was upbraided in the Senate by Fabius
1840 XI | secure and happy. But being upheld by powers, to which the
1841 X | have many ordinances to uphold them.~Therefore, a prince
1842 XIV | such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes,
1843 VII | behoved him, therefore, to upset this state of affairs and
1844 III | son of Pope Alexander, was usually called, occupied the Romagna,
1845 XVIII(38)| confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.”
1846 XIX | likewise it would have been utterly destructive to Caracalla,
1847 III(6) | Italian — from the duchy of Valentinois, conferred on him by Louis
1848 XII | gentlemen and plebeians they did valiantly. This was before they turned
1849 XXVI | combatter corto:~Che l’antico valore~Negli italici cuor non e
1850 VI | made famous.~Those who by valorous ways become princes, like
1851 VI | nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to
1852 XXVI | new order of arms, but a variation upon the old. And these
1853 XVIII | accordingly as the winds and variations of fortune force it, yet,
1854 XX | speak generally, for it varies so much with the individual;
1855 IX | many ways, but as these vary according to the circumstances
1856 XXIII | or is so often changed by varying opinions that he falls into
1857 XI | it still greater and more venerated by his goodness and infinite
1858 V | hatred, and more desire for vengeance, which will never permit
1859 XXI(44) | Its root is that of the verb “rotisya,” to bind oneself
1860 XXVI | under its auspices may be verified that saying of Petrarch:~
1861 XIX | princes have armies that are veterans in the governance and administration
1862 VIII | chiefs of Fermo. When the viands and all the other entertainments
1863 XV | something else, which looks like vice, yet followed brings him
1864 VII | crushed those forces in his vicinity that could injure him if
1865 XVIII | otherwise, and he always found victims; for there never was a man
1866 XVII | deeds from one point of view and from another condemn
1867 XIII | because from that time the vigour of the Roman Empire began
1868 XIX | gladiators, and doing other vile things, little worthy of
1869 XII(24) | 1320 at Sible Hedingham, a village in Essex. He married Domnia,
1870 XVIII(38)| disceptationem,~alterum per vim; cumque illud proprium sit
1871 XIX | be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women
1872 XXV | are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity
1873 XVII | being full of dangers. Hence Virgil, through the mouth of Dido,
1874 XXVI | that saying of Petrarch:~Virtu contro al Furore~Prendera
1875 XXVI | opportunity to a wise and virtuous one to introduce a new order
1876 VIII | many years, he wished to visit him and his city, and in
1877 V | republics there is more vitality, greater hatred, and more
1878 XVIII | engagements have been made void and of no effect through
1879 Ded | digested into a little volume, to your Magnificence.~And
1880 XXV | have done; for if he had waited in Rome until he could get
1881 XXVI | Italy, left as without life, waits for him who shall yet heal
1882 VI | and of state; because men, walking almost always in paths beaten
1883 XXI(44) | to-day, cf. Sir Mackenzie Wallace’s “Russia,” ed. 1905: “The
1884 VI | who writes of him says he wanted nothing but a kingdom to
1885 XX | demands it, I must not fail to warn a prince, who by means of
1886 VII | Of the Orsini he had a warning when, after taking Faenza
1887 XVII | The Locrians were laid waste by a legate of Scipio, yet
1888 XVI | you.~And there is nothing wastes so rapidly as liberality,
1889 V | rebellion it has always the watch-word of liberty and its ancient
1890 XII | always against him, so they watched each other. Francesco turned
1891 XXVI | the rock has poured forth water, it has rained manna, everything
1892 XXV | that, rising again, the waters may pass away by canal,
1893 III | powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst
1894 VII | For the first thing he weakened the Orsini and Colonna parties
1895 III | that by this action he was weakening himself, depriving himself
1896 IX | case their government is weaker and more insecure, because
1897 XIII | Saul armed him with his own weapons; which David rejected as
1898 XXV | therefore that men, when the weather becomes fair, shall not
1899 XX | impossible to satisfy them. And weighing well the reasons for this
1900 XIII(33) | Roman Empire sank under the weight of its military obligations,
1901 Ded | truth of the matter and the weightiness of the theme shall make
1902 XIX | everything and everybody. And well-ordered states and wise princes
1903 XIX | emperor; the other in the west where Albinus was, who also
1904 XXIII | inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the
1905 XII(24) | These became the famous “White Company.” He took part in
1906 | whither
1907 VIII | inhumanity with infinite wickednesses do not permit him to be
1908 III(4) | Louis XII divorced his wife, Jeanne, daughter of Louis
1909 VII | he had recourse to his wiles, and he knew so well how
1910 X | everything is well considered, it wilt not be difficult for a wise
1911 XVIII | itself accordingly as the winds and variations of fortune
1912 XII | did they campaign in the winter. All these things were permitted
1913 XVI | to both. Therefore it is wiser to have a reputation for
1914 VIII | time, being endowed with wit and a vigorous body and
1915 II | Ferrara, who could not have withstood the attacks of the Venetians
1916 XXV | cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep
1917 XXV | She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because
1918 XXVI | the above discourses, and wondering within myself whether the
1919 III | they have gone from bad to worse. This follows also on another
1920 IX | they are few in number. The worst that a prince may expect
1921 VII | unless they are men of great worth and ability, it is not reasonable
1922 XXVI | him who shall yet heal her wounds and put an end to the ravaging
1923 III | resides there it can only be wrested from him with the greatest
1924 VI | private citizen, that one who writes of him says he wanted nothing
1925 XVIII(41)| Aragon. “When Machiavelli was writing ‘The Prince’ it would have
1926 XVIII(37)| portion of Machiavelli’s writings.” Burd, “Il Principe,” p.
1927 XV | his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or
1928 XIII | CHAPTER XIII~CONCERNING AUXILIARIES,
1929 XIV | CHAPTER XIV~THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE
1930 XIX | CHAPTER XIX~THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING
1931 XV | CHAPTER XV~CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH
1932 XVI | CHAPTER XVI~CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND
1933 XVII | CHAPTER XVII~CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY,
1934 XVIII | CHAPTER XVIII~CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH
1935 XX | CHAPTER XX~ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY
1936 XXI | CHAPTER XXI~HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT
1937 XXII | CHAPTER XXII~CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES
1938 XXIII | CHAPTER XXIII~HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE
1939 XXIV | CHAPTER XXIV~THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE
1940 XXV | CHAPTER XXV~WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT
1941 XXVI | CHAPTER XXVI~AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE
1942 VIII | in the early days of his youth sent to fight under Paolo
1943 VII | they must help him with zeal and offend with caution,
1944 XIII(33) | the Roman power was at its zenith when every citizen acknowledged
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