Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I -- HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED; CHAPTER II -- CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES; CHAPTER III -- CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES; CHAPTER IV -- WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH; CHAPTER V -- CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES THAT LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS BEFORE THEY WERE ANNEXED; CHAPTER VI -- CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES, WHICH ARE ACQUIRED BY ONE'S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY

Chapter vii -- concerning new principalities, which are acquired either by the arms of others or by good fortunechapter viii -- concerning those who have obtained a principality by wickedness; chapter ix -- concerning a civil principality; chapter x -- concerning the way in which the strength of all principalities ought to be measured; chapter xi -- concerning ecclesiastical principalities; chapter xii -- how many kinds of soldiery there are, and concerning mercenaries; chapter xiii -- concerning auxiliaries, mixed soldiery, and one's own

Chapter xiv -- that which concerns a prince on the subject of the art of warchapter xv -- concerning things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed; chapter xvi -- concerning liberality and meanness; chapter xvii -- concerning cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared; chapter xviii -- concerning the way in which princes should keep faith; chapter xix -- that one should avoid being despised and hated; chapter xx -- are fortresses, and many other things to which princes often resort, advantageous or hurtful?

Chapter xxi -- how a prince should conduct himself so as to gain renownchapter xxii -- concerning the secretaries of princes; chapter xxiii -- how flatterers should be avoided; chapter xxiv -- why the princes of italy have lost their states; chapter xxv -- what fortune can effect in human affairs and how to withstand her; chapter xxvi -- an exhortation to liberate italy from the barbarians; description of the methods adopted by the duke valentino when murdering vitellozzo vitelli, oliverotto da fermo, the signor pagolo, and the duke di gravina orsini; the life of castruccio castracani of lucca