It is written as a guide for new princes, and includes chapters on conquests by virtue, and by other people's virtue, conquered kingdoms, obtaining principality's through crimes and misdeeds and how a prince should perform all the wicked deeds he needs to do in one go so that his people will eventually forget them, defense and military, reputation and generousity, and more. One of the most famous of the author's works, and the one that brought the term 'Machiavellian' into use. It is a political treatise addressed to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1532. The Prince Niccolo MachiavelliĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15.
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