Book, Chapter
1 Int | intimate intercourse with princes and the affairs of state.
2 Int | Machiavelli tells us what princes do, not what they ought
3 Int | Prince: “In what Manner Princes should keep their Faith,”
4 I, I | showed no less folly in the princes themselves than infidelity
5 I, I | became changed with the princes. Theodosius had appointed
6 I, II | governed by the following princes: Zeno, reigning in Constantinople,
7 I, II | of government and their princes, but also their laws, customs,
8 I, III | Christian religion, that princes of other states embraced
9 I, III | to his request, the other princes assented. Desiderius kept
10 I, III | authority over temporal princes.~The Lombards, having now
11 I, III | prevailed among the western princes, leaving them without defense.
12 I, III | emperor, and gave it to three princes and three bishops of Germany;
13 I, III | bishops of Germany; the princes of Brandenburg, Palatine,
14 I, IV | some districts by their own princes, and others by the deputies
15 I, IV | called the chancellor. Of the princes, the most powerful were
16 I, IV | having agreed with the princes who governed Calabria and
17 I, IV | Tancred, one of these Norman princes, had many children; among
18 I, IV | William arranged with the princes of Capua and Salerno, and
19 I, IV | and left Sicily with the princes of Salerno and Capua. But
20 I, IV | great authority over distant princes, he could not compel obedience
21 I, V | themselves unable to govern. Princes were in fear of them; for,
22 I, V | hereditary. True it is, the princes of their creating have not
23 I, VI | Guelphs of Italy and become princes in the city; they then bade
24 I, VI | Guelph or Ghibelline, many princes joined them, of whom, among
25 I, VI | terror, not only to the princes of Italy, but to the ultramontane
26 I, VI | the descendants of these princes, restored the authority
27 I, VII | With these warriors the princes of Italy long carried on
28 I, VII | the country, of which the princes afterward availed themselves
29 I, VII | these numerous favors, as princes commonly are, he accused
30 I, VII | Italy in respect of her princes and her arms, at the period
31 I, VII | the hands of the lesser princes, or of men who possessed
32 I, VII | no state; for the minor princes did not adopt the practice
33 I, VII | honored.~With these idle princes and such contemptible arms,
34 II, I | by the unwise practice of princes and republics, having gone
35 II, I | proceeded from the negligence of princes, who have lost all appetite
36 II, VI | their defense; for these princes, being accustomed to rule
37 II, VIII| any remedy for this; for princes who have but few enemies
38 III, V | these four almost became princes of the city. This state
39 III, VI | benefactors is an error into which princes and republics frequently
40 IV, I | justified in the view of the princes of Italy as well as in their
41 V, I | the transactions of our princes at home and abroad will
42 V, I | artifice, deceit, and cunning, princes, warriors, and leaders of
43 V, I | when, by consent of her princes, peace was restored, it
44 V, I | being abandoned by the princes (for they were unwilling
45 V, I | made, by which both became princes in the territories of the
46 V, II | he brought with him some princes, whom he had engaged in
47 V, II | Alfonso, with many of the princes of his suite, made prisoners,
48 V, II | This victory terrified the princes of Italy, who, being jealous
49 V, II | first they had alarmed the princes of Italy with the apprehension
50 VI, I | the troops, the victorious princes could not make use of them
51 VI, III | restore peace among the princes of Italy, and with this
52 VI, V | Venetians; for the Aragonese princes of Naples were jealous of
53 VI, V | had persecuted the Lombard princes. These considerations caused
54 VI, VI | allowed to recover from the princes of Montferrat and Savoy
55 VI, VII | Christian country, to exhort princes and people to arm in defense
56 VI, VII | several cities and other princes, also joined him; so that
57 VI, VII | a few smaller places and princes of inferior note, adhered
58 VII, I | proceedings of the other princes and states of Italy, have
59 VII, I | the design of exciting the princes against his country, he
60 VII, I | not seek the alliance of princes, but for Giovanni chose
61 VII, I | humbled the pride of many princes with so much fidelity and
62 VII, I | consideration, not only among the princes and governments of Italy,
63 VII, I | city, and all the Christian princes, condoled with his son Piero
64 VII, I | imitated the biographies of princes than general history, it
65 VII, II | powers are easily deceived by princes. The barons, conscious of
66 VII, II | It was thus our Italian princes, fearing those virtues in
67 VII, II | predecessors had used. All the princes promised assistance either
68 VII, IV | him more regarded by the princes of Italy, and all sought
69 VII, IV | principal employment of her princes was to watch each other,
70 VII, IV | government, and several princes addressed him by letter;
71 VII, IV | Medici, made no reply to the princes’ communications, and told
72 VII, IV | Italy, and the views of her princes, he assured them, that if
73 VII, IV | Guiliano were honored as princes, and resolved to be guided
74 VII, IV | might be expected from the princes of Italy, by his means?
75 VII, V | and sending to all the princes of Italy to request assistance,
76 VII, VI | sounding the minds of the princes, to learn how they were
77 VII, VI | republics, and not reared under princes; that the former cherish
78 VII, VI | rise in their defense. Let princes therefore learn to live,
79 VIII, II | the wrongs committed by princes are usually concealed under
80 VIII, III | means; but that secular princes had no right to detain cardinals,
81 VIII, III | immediately followed, gave these princes hope that the new state
82 VIII, III | who were sent by their princes to the pontiff. They solicited
83 VIII, IV | their church toward temporal princes, and the still greater want
84 VIII, IV | the disposition of her princes and people, his hopes from
85 VIII, IV | is the duty not only of princes but of every Christian;
86 VIII, IV | and obligations, induce princes to keep faith.~The castles
87 VIII, V | were the Bolognese and many princes. The Venetians wished to
88 VIII, V | with many other Italian princes; and when the measures to
89 VIII, VI | the king, and induced the princes of Altimura, Salerno, and
90 VIII, VII | estimation of Lorenzo by other princes.~The pope having observed
91 VIII, VII | resolution, they became almost princes in the city.~The Florentines
92 VIII, VII | assumed the deportment of princes rather than of private persons;
93 VIII, VII | admiration, not only by the princes of Italy, but by those of
94 VIII, VII | The citizens and all the princes of Italy mourned for him,
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