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About Machiavelli: Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely known for his treatises on realist political theory (The Prince) on the one hand and republicanism (Discourses on Livy) on the other. Source: Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Machiavelli: • The Prince (1513) Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2
Preface Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that there is nothing which has less in common with another, and that is so dissimilar, as civilian life is from the military. Whence it is often observed, if anyone designs to avail himself of an enlistment in the army, that he soon changes, not only his clothes, but also his customs, his habits, his voice, and in the presence of any civilian custom, he goes to pieces; for I do not believe that any man can dress in civilian clothes who wants to be quick and ready for any violence; nor can that man have civilian customs and habits, who judges those customs to be effeminate and those habits not conducive to his actions; nor does it seem right to him to maintain his ordinary appearance and voice who, with his beard and cursing, wants to make other men afraid: which makes such an opinion in these times to be very true. But if they should consider the ancient institutions, they would not find matter more united, more in conformity, and which, of necessity, should be like to each other as much as these (civilian and military); for in all the arts that are established in a society for the sake of the common good of men, all those institutions created to (make people) live in fear of the laws and of God would be in vain, if their defense had not been provided for and which, if well arranged, will maintain not only these, but also those that are not well established. And so (on the contrary), good institutions without the help of the military are not much differently disordered than the habitation of a superb and regal palace, which, even though adorned with jewels and gold, if it is not roofed over will not have anything to protect it from the rain. And, if in any other institutions of a City and of a Republic every diligence is employed in keeping men loyal, peaceful, and full of the fear of God, it is doubled in the military; for in what man ought the country look for greater loyalty than in that man who has to promise to die for her? In whom ought there to be a greater love of peace, than in him who can only be injured by war? In whom ought there to be a greater fear of God than in him who, undergoing infinite dangers every day, has more need for His aid? If these necessities in forming the life of the soldier are well considered, they are found to be praised by those who gave the laws to the Commanders and by those who were put in charge of military training, and followed and imitated with all diligence by others. But because military institutions have become completely corrupt and far removed from the ancient ways, these sinister opinions have arisen which make the military hated and intercourse with those who train 3
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moved with the fifteen files of shi
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I believe that Heads assigned by yo
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the former, men of virtu are raised
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suffice to have said in showing the
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Triari, and with ranks so sparse, a
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have arranged that each company hav
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arranged as I have previously descr
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assembled into your two Battalions
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create an arrangement that cannot b
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mention of it was made, as somethin
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showed you a short time ago. But le
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the more he should penetrate into i
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told you that the second rank had t
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Constables and Heads of companies t
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LUIGI Since an engagement has been
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of the ancients, that almost all th
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eing occupied by the Triari, there
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distinction: either they are entire
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an event; for example, when you see
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Army had crossed the Adda, but shou
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Maid of France, and who was the cau
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FABRIZIO I have shown you how to or
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as these companies so arranged all
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etween the one and the other flank,
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the command is given by voice or by
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This arises from not keeping track
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engagement. And therefore, when mar
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that of Caesar, who, having his arm
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the mode of encamping and the form
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quarter the light cavalry, which, s
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the said length in the middle, ther
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one to the herdsmen, another to Art
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But let us return to the discussion
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from other desires he longs for his
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it with diligence, giving each one
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apprehensive, and conceal those thi
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that it should not do so, he gave o
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easily. A little while ago, I said
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other hand, there is nothing more i
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You ought to know that towns and fo
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hills outside the City, which, as s
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ombardiers built that way are easil
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what he has to do in any incident.
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esieged must also guard themselves
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in various ways. The ciphers are ac
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esieged either in their encampment
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example, how and in how many ways t
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merited who with a army which was (
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