The Prince: By Niccolo Machiavelli with Related Documents (Paperback)

Foreword.- Preface.- PART ONE.- Introduction: The Puzzle of The Prince.- An Extreme Book for Extreme Times.- Humanists and Heretics.- Machiavelli Before The Prince.- The Prince's Prolonged and Difficult Birth.- Dueling Machiavellis in Early Modern Europe: The Counselor to Tyrants and the Republican Conspirator.- The Prince and the Autonomy of Politics: A Blessing and a Curse.- PART TWO.- The Document.- The Prince .- PART THREE.- Related Documents.- Niccolo Machiavelli, Letter to Giovan Battista Soderini, circa September 13-27, 1506.- Francesco Vettori, Letter to Niccolo Machiavelli. November 23, 1513.- Niccolo Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori. December 10, 1513.- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Thrushes: A Sonnet, 1513.- Riccardo Riccardi, Machiavelli's Presentation of The Prince, circa 1580.- Niccolo Guicciardini, From a Letter to Luigi Guicciardini, July 29, 1517.- Early Prefaces of The Prince.- Biagio Buonaccorsi, Prefatory Letter to Pandolfo Bellacci, circa 1516-17.- Teofilo Mochi, Prefatory Letter, circa 1530.- Antonio Blado, Dedicatory Letter to Filippo Strozzi, January 4, 1532.- Bernardo Giunta, Dedicatory Letter to Giovanni Gaddi, May 8, 1532.- Agostino Nifo, From On Skill in Ruling. 1523.- Giovan Battista Busini, From a Letter to Benedetto Varchi, January 23, 1549.- Benedetto Varchi, From the Florentine History, 1565.- Etienne Binet, From Machiavelli's Dream, 1629.- Reginald Pole, From The Apology to Charles V, 1534.- Innocent Gentillet, From The Discourses Against Machiavelli, 1576.- Christopher Marlowe, From The Jew of Malta, circa 1590.- Frederick the Great, From The Refutation of Machiavelli's 'Prince', 1740.- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, From On the Social Contract, After 1762.- Benito Mussolini, 'A Prelude to Machiavelli,' 1924.- Antonio Gramsci, From The Prison Notebooks, 1932-34.- Appendixes.- Maps.- A Machiavelli Chronology (1469-1527).- Questions for Consideration.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.