WELCOME TO THE BOOK BLANKET! NEW TO PANGOBOOKS? USE MY SPECIAL DISCOUNT CODE myantonia21 TO GET $5 OFF YOUR 1ST ORDER (OF $10 OR MORE). MY CODE WORKS WITH ANY SELLER. 😀 Questions? Want more pics? Want to make me a bundle $ offer? Shoot me a message and I'll respond quickly...I promise 😀 Every order includes fun extras etc 😀 ******************************************* Book overview The ends justifies the means. The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes – such as glory and survival – can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends. The Prince, political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513. A short treatise on how to acquire power, create a state, and keep it, The Prince represents Machiavelli’s effort to provide a guide for political action based on the lessons of history and his own experience as a foreign secretary in Florence. His belief that politics has its own rules so shocked his readers that the adjectival form of his surname, Machiavellian, came to be used as a synonym for political maneuvers marked by cunning, duplicity, or bad faith. Machiavelli referred to his treatise as De Principatibus (“Of Principalities”) while writing it, and it circulated in manuscript form during the 1510s. When it was first published in 1532, five years after Machiavelli had died, it carried the title Il Principe (“The Prince”).