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An edition of The Prince (1515)

The Prince

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The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes – such as glory and survival – can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.

From Machiavelli's correspondence, a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was carried out with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings".

Although The Prince was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it was generally agreed as being especially innovative. This is partly because it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin, a practice that had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature.

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2004, El Nacional
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1998
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1988, Cambridge University Press
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Володар: Il principe
1976, G. A. Press
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1953-05, New American Library
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The Prince
1935-01-01, Oxford University Press
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Machiavelli
1905, Nutt
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1905, D. Nutt
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. xxix-xxxi.
Translation from the Italian of: Il principe.
Includes indexes.

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Cambridge, New York
Series
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.1
Library of Congress
JC143 .M38 1988b

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Pagination
xxxv, 152 p. ;
Number of pages
152

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2529620M
Internet Archive
machiavelli0000mach
ISBN 10
0521342406, 0521349931
LCCN
88005048
OCLC/WorldCat
1130029304
Library Thing
6026
Goodreads
831135
267246

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