# The Prince

by [Niccolò Machiavelli](https://localbooks.app/authors/niccolo-machiavelli)

- Genres: [Política](https://localbooks.app/genres/society/politics), [História Mundial](https://localbooks.app/genres/history/world-history)
- Set in: [Florença, Toscana, Itália](https://localbooks.app/places/it/tuscany/florence); [San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Toscana, Itália](https://localbooks.app/places/it/tuscany/san-casciano-in-val-di-pesa)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1532
- Pages: 156

## Description

Out of office and exiled to his farm outside Florence, Machiavelli wrote a short handbook for anyone who wants to win a state and keep it. Drawing on Cesare Borgia, the popes and the wars of Italy, he asks whether it is better for a ruler to be loved or feared.

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