An edition of The Prince (1515)

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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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Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
2018-04-23, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
2014, Standard Ebooks
ebook in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
2013-12-12, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
2007-08-02, Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
2006-02-11, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: El príncipe
El príncipe
2004, El Nacional
in Spanish
Cover of: Kunshuron
Kunshuron
1998
in Japanese
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
1988, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Володар
Володар: Il principe
1976, G. A. Press
in Ukrainian
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
1953-05, New American Library
in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
1935-01-01, Oxford University Press
Cover of: Machiavelli
Machiavelli
1905, Nutt
Cover of: Machiavelli
Machiavelli
1905, D. Nutt
in English
Cover of: Il principe: e discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio

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