by Nicolo Machiavelli
translated by W. K. Marriott
transcribed by Jimmy Moore
| 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 which 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 fortune. |
| Chapter 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 war. |
| Chapter 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 renown? |
| Chapter XXII | Concerning the secretaries of princes. |
| Chapter XXIII | How flatterers should be avoided. |
| Chapter XXIV | 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. |
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