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Enjoy a calm, modern-English adaptation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s timeless masterpiece, The Prince. This version has been updated into clear, easy-to-follow language—perfect for relaxing, drifting off to sleep, or simply having a soothing backdrop while discovering Machiavelli’s influential insights on power, leadership, and statecraft. Ideal for restful nights or focused study, this audiobook brings Renaissance wisdom right to your ears in a peaceful, accessible format.

Chapters:

1. The various kinds of Government and the ways by which they are established. - 00:00:57
2. Of Hereditary Monarchies. - 00:01:54
3. Of Mixed Monarchies. - 00:03:23
4. Why the Kingdom of Darius, occupied by Alexander, did not rebel against the successors of the latter after his death. - 00:20:25
5. The way to govern Cities or Dominions that, previous to being occupied, lived under their own Laws. - 00:22:19
6. Of New Dominions which have been acquired by one's own Arms and Powers. - 00:23:40
7. Of New Dominions acquired by the Power of others or by Fortune. 00:25:58
8. Of those who have attained the position of Prince by villainy. - 00:32:17
9. Of the Civic Principality. - 00:37:36
10. How the strength of all States should be measured. - 00:43:09
11. Of Ecclesiastical Principalities. - 00:45:43
12. The different kinds of Militia and Mercenary Soldiers. 00:48:25
13. Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and Native Troops - 00:53:25
14. What the duties of a Prince are with regard to the Militia. - 00:57:10
15. Of the things for which Men, and especially Princes, are praised or blamed. 01:00:14
16. Of Liberality and Niggardliness. - 01:02:34
17. Of Cruelty and Clemency, and whether it is better to be loved or feared. - 01:05:43
18. In what way Princes must keep faith. 01:10:37
19. That we must avoid being despised and hated. 01:15:33
20. Whether Fortresses and other things which Princes often make are useful or injurious. 01:35:59
21. How a Prince must act in order to gain reputation. - 01:45:27
22. Of the Secretaries of Princes. - 01:52:37
23. How Flatterers must be shunned. - 01:55:05
24. Why the Princes of Italy have lost their States. - 01:58:31
25. How much Fortune can do in human affairs, and how it may be opposed. - 02:01:45
26. Exhortation to liberate Italy from the Barbarians. - 02:08:12