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The Prince
Political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli
This article is about the book by Niccolò Machiavelli.
Machiavelli the prince summary
For other uses, see Prince (disambiguation).
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe[ilˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theoristNiccolò Machiavelli in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes.
The Prince shocked many readers by assuming that immoral acts are justifiable if they achieve political glory.[1]
From Machiavelli's correspondence, a version was apparently being written in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities).[2] However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death.
This was carried out with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscript, controversy had swir