![]() ![]() ![]() There are four types of armies that are identified by the author beginning with mercenaries who are the hired soldiers and tend to be unreliable and dangerous. The author details the characters of a prince for example paying close consideration to the armed forces so that they help him keep his power. Machiavelli outlines how to maintain a newly acquired territory as these various types of principalities. There are also mixed principalities which are seized by force, civic principalities which are acquired by various criminal methods and finally ecclesiastical principalities influenced by the church. The first type is hereditary princedoms meaning they are inherited by the ruler. ![]() In part one Machiavelli discusses the four types of principalities. The book is composed of 26 chapters which fall into four major sections. The first chapter gives an outline of the book discussing various styles of ruling as a prince, character traits that a ruler should have and the political situation of Italy in the 16th century. The author explains in simple language about the nature of great men and the characters of the government. The book is dedicated to Lorenzo De Medici, the ruler of Florence. Machiavelli has created a ruthless guide on how to rule the country in his volume "The Prince". ![]()
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