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The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

Original publication
1532
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
184
Difficulty
★★★
Genres
Economics, Philosophy, History
Translated from
Italian

Book summary

An ambitious ruler seeks to seize and maintain power in an unstable and dangerous world. Through concrete examples and direct strategies, he learns to manipulate alliances, anticipate threats, and impose his authority. The author lays bare the mechanisms of power, where morality comes second to effectiveness. This incisive treatise reveals the realities of government and the difficult choices that domination imposes. It is a strategic work that analyzes human nature, politics, and the art of remaining at the top.

The plot

The Prince. “Everyone sees what you appear to be. Few really know what you are.”.

The world of the book

A divided Italy at war. At that time, Italy was not a single country. It was divided between Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples and the lands of the Pope.

The author

Machiavelli saw princes up close. As a diplomat for Florence, he met the King of France, the Pope and Cesare Borgia, an ambitious warlord.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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