The Prince: Facsimile Edition

"Il Principe" (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called "De Principatibus" (About Principalities), it was originally written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is the most remembered, and the work responsible for bringing "Machiavellian" into wide usage as a pejorative term. Translated from the Italian by Ninian Hill Thomson