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M A C H I A V E L L I’ S PR INCE
Machiavelli’s Prince
A New Reading
E R I C A BE N N E R
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Quanto piú mi è cresciuto la speranza, tanto mi è cresciuto el timore . . . Oimé,
che io non truovo requie in alcuno loco! Talvolta io cerco di vincere me stesso,
riprendomi di questo mio furore, e dico meco: Che fai tu? Se’ tu impazzato?
Quando tu l’ottenga, che fia? . . . Non sai tu quanto poco bene si truova nella
cose che l’uomo desidera, rispetto a quello che l’uomo ha presupposto trovarvi?
The more my hope has grown, the more my fear has grown . . . Woe is me!
I can’t find rest anywhere! Sometimes I try to conquer myself, reproaching
myself for this fury of mine, and say to myself: What are you doing? Are
you crazy? When you get her, what’ll it amount to? . . . Don’t you know how
little good a man finds in the things he has longed for, compared with what
he expected to find?
(Mandragola, Act IV, scene 1)
Acknowledgements
I have been inspired and challenged by discussions with other scholars, some
at early stages of writing and others when the manuscript was more or less
complete. I regret that I had too little time and space to address all their
suggestions in the text. Nondimanco, I thank the following for their contribu-
tions to my thinking on the Prince, and hope for future opportunities to
continue our discussions: Adrian Blau, Guillaume Bogiaris, Dirk Brantl, Dallas
Denery, Denis Fachard, Benedetto Fontana, Tankred Freiberger, Rolf Geiger,
Michael Gillespie, Giovanni Giorgini, Anthony Grafton, Ruth Grant, Otfried
Höffe, Andreas Kablitz, George Kateb, Daniel Stein Kokin, Robyn Marasco,
John McCormick, David Miller, Cary Nederman, Luis Javier Orjuela, Gio-
vanni Panno, Zbigniew Pelczynski, Mark Philp, Alessandro Pinzani, Ema-
nuele Cutinelli Rendina, Jorge Andres López Rivera, Rodrigo Romero, Rahul
Sagar, Peter Schröder, Quentin Skinner, Peter Stacey, Vickie Sullivan, Diego
von Vacano, Ever Eduardo Velazco, Armando Villegas, Maurizio Viroli,
Daniel Weinstock, Will Wittels, and Catherine Zuckert. Special thanks are
due to John Najemy for his prudentissimo advice on my original book
proposal.
Some of the ideas in this book were presented at the Groupe de Recherche
Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique, Montreal; Philosophisches
Seminar, Tübingen University; Oriel College, Oxford; the Center for Human
Values, Princeton; Duke University; Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia;
and Renaissance Studies Association conferences in Montreal and Washing-
ton, D.C. I thank the organizers for their invitations, and the audiences and
other participants for their comments.
I also thank Andrew Hurrell, Catherine Clarke, and the anonymous readers
for OUP for their valuable suggestions; and Dominic Byatt, Aimee Wright,
Carla Hodge, and Mandi Gomez at OUP for all their editorial support.
I am grateful above all to Patrick and to my mother, to whom I dedicate
this book. Since words cannot express the depth of my gratitude, I shall leave
them out.
Contents
Detailed contents xi
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction xix
Machiavelli’s ironic techniques xlv
Coded words liii
States
1. States and modes 9
2. Maintaining states 23
3. Empire 31
4. Absolute government 53
5. Free cities 61
Modes
6. Virtú 69
7. Fortune 89
8. Crimes 111
9. Fortunate astuteness 123
Foundations
10. Abundance and necessity 139
11. Popes 149
12. Arms and laws 155
13. Arms and virtú 163
14. Knowledge and discipline 169
Redemption
24. Stop blaming others 283
25. How to deal with fortune 291
26. Redeem yourselves 305
Conclusion 313
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction xix
Machiavelli’s life and times xxii
Machiavelli, the Medici, and the Prince xxvi
A peculiar kind of handbook xxix
Irony and political criticism xxx
Signs of irony in the Prince xxxii
The uses of inconsistency xxxv
Princes of virtú and of fortune xxxvii
Why would Machiavelli dissimulate? xxxix
The Prince as a discourse xlii
Reading the Prince xliii
Machiavelli’s ironic techniques xlv
(1) Paradox and general standards xlv
(2) Ambiguity and normatively ‘coded’ language xlvi
(3) Provocative use of examples xlvii
(4) Ironic contrast xlviii
(a) Contrasting words and deeds xlviii
(b) Contrasting descriptions xlix
(5) Eloquent silences and omissions xlix
(a) Unstated parallels xlix
(b) Misleading omissions l
(6) Ironic transformation l
(7) Hyperbole and exaggeration l
(8) Absurd or outrageous assertions li
Coded words liii
States
1. States and modes 9
States and dominions 9
Republics and principalities 11
Silent tyranny 15
The hereditary, the new, and the free 17
Fortune and virtú 18
xii Detailed contents
Modes
6. Virtú 69
What is virtú? Words and deeds 69
Why it is better to rely on virtú than on fortune 70
Superhuman orders and human virtú 71
Opportunity and fortune 74
The happy results of princely virtú 77
Stand by yourself and use force 79
A lesser example of great virtú: Hiero of Syracuse 84
7. Fortune 89
High-flying princes of fortune 90
Why acquiring by fortune creates future difficulties 91
Detailed contents xiii
Foundations
10. Abundance and necessity 139
Have a strong town and avoid popular hatred 139
Why free cities have good defences 140
Fortifications I: military and economic 141
Fortifications II: good orders and justice 143
Making virtú out of necessity 145
How princes and peoples can unite through siege 147
11. Popes 149
Otherworldly states 149
How the Church grew great 150
Can any human prince do without earthly foundations? 151
12. Arms and laws 155
Why good arms need good laws 156
Why mercenaries are useless 157
Good arms and republics 159
Virtú badly used 161
xiv Detailed contents
Redemption
24. Stop blaming others 283
The virtú of new princes 283
Macedonians, Greeks, and Italians 285
Pick yourself up 288
25. How to deal with fortune 291
Is one’s fortune ever deserved? 292
Fortune, God, and our own responsibility 292
Building/Caution Mode I: free will 294
Variation/Impetuosity Mode II: vary one’s modes
with the times 296
xvi Detailed contents
Machiavelli’s works
Other works
AP Aristotle, Politics
AR Aristotle, Rhetoric
ANE Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
GD Guicciardini, Dialogues
LH Livy, Histories [Ab urbe condita]
ME Benner, Machiavelli’s Ethics
PolH Polybius, Histories
PL Plutarch, Parallel Lives of Greeks and Romans
PM Plutarch, Moralia
SJW Sallust, Jugurthine War
xviii Abbreviations
SWC Sallust, War with Catiline
TA Tacitus, Agricola
TH Tacitus, Histories
TPW Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
VA Virgil, Aeneid
XC Xenophon, Cyropaedia
XH Xenophon, Hiero
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As he inscribed on a copy of his ‘Discourse on the reorganization of the Florentine state for
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Machiavelli to Vettori, 10 December 1513, MF 263–5.
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